比尔(罗伯特·瑞安 Robert Ryan 饰)是一名职业拳击手,他和女友朱莉(奥黛丽·托特 Audrey Totter 饰)之间的感情十分要好,朱莉是他在比赛中的精神支柱。时常生活在窘困之中的比尔好胜心非常的强,因为输掉比赛意味着他将颗粒无收,所以他必须赢。
在一场比赛中,比尔的对手是名为奈尔森(哈尔·贝勒 Hal Baylor 饰)的强壮男子,在比赛之前,教练告诉比尔,这是一场被黑道操纵的比赛,在擂台上,比尔必须认输。然而,在激烈的比赛之中,处于劣势的比尔不愿屈服与黑帮的强权,最终靠着惊人的实力达到了奈尔森。比尔虽然赢得了比赛,却惹恼了一直在背地里操纵着比赛的黑帮。
大卫(詹姆斯·麦斯登 James Marsden 饰)是一位小有名气的剧作家,为了能有更好的创作环境,大卫携爱妻艾米(凯特·波茨沃斯 Kate Bosworth 饰)回到了风景宜人的南方老家。老家清新的空气和闲散的生活让两个疲惫的城市人感到十分的新奇,而在这靓丽的风景之下,原住民们对这对初来乍到的夫妻却并不能算得上友好。
秉着息事宁人的态度,大卫对来自外界的种种歧视选择了默默忍受,甚至在妻子被一名当地的建筑工人设计强暴之后,他也只是希望能够大事化小小事化了。可是,大卫的一味忍让换来的却是变本加厉的欺负,当一群“野蛮人”试图闯入他家时,曾经懦弱的大卫选择了拿起武器,为了保卫自己最后的家园而战。
小男孩尼克(胡里奥·博希加斯 Julio Bohigas-Couto 饰)在一个风雨交加的夜晚目睹了邻居安吉尔(哈维尔·古铁雷斯 Javier Gutiérrez 饰)杀害自己妻子的场面。在和安吉尔的追逐之中,一辆车将尼克撞倒,导致了他的死亡。一晃眼多年过去,薇拉(阿德丽安娜·尤加特 Adriana Ugarte 饰)和丈夫大卫(阿尔瓦罗·莫奇 Álvaro Morte 饰)带着他们的女儿住进了尼克曾经居住过的房子。
有一个电闪雷鸣的夜晚,薇拉意外的在电视里看到了尼克,让薇拉感到震惊的是,自己似乎能够通过电视和25年前的尼克对话。在薇拉的告诫之下,尼克免于一死,但过去的改变也牵连着薇拉的生活发生了巨变。大卫不再是薇拉的丈夫,而他们的女儿自然也不复存在。
菲利普教授(罗宾·威廉姆斯 Robin Williams 饰)对研究工作的痴迷就像瘾君子沉溺毒品般,终日为了研究忙得不可开交,甚至因此已经错过了自己的两次结婚典礼。眼下第三次大婚的钟声已来到门外,菲利普的研究却出现了重大突破,毫无意外,他再一次因此错过了婚礼,留未婚妻莎拉(马西娅·盖伊·哈登 Marcia Gay Harden 饰)在教堂苦苦等候,怨言满腹。菲利普看着被他称为“飞天法宝”的新发明——一种绿色的胶状物质,能够克服地心引力,只需将它涂在任何物体上,那个物体就会腾空而起。不过这种物质也有个难以捉摸的特性,随时会捉弄一下使用它的人。为了追回被他气走的未婚妻,同时挽救即将关闭的学校,菲利普教授将飞天法宝涂在校篮球队员的球鞋上,结果球队大获全胜。然而同时,也招来了别有用心者对飞天法宝的觊觎……
How easy is it for desperate youngsters to become dangerous gangsters in a decaying society washed all over by the blood of war? Fairly easy indeed. Rane shows incidents, probably somewhat facts, that took place in Serbia of the war era. Things similar to what you see on this film could happen virtually everywhere, but this film gives a very Yugoslavian feeling to everything. Yugo style mafia, Yugo style murder, and all that. Revolting politicians and their greed are to blame, not only the desperate young men who lose their reasoning while trying to be someone. The film and the casting is overall successful, and it's so very Serbian. I recommend it to anyone who.. well anyone who likes a good film. But don't expect anything American style on this one, as I say it's Yugo to the bone.
Claudie, a young French woman, inherits her uncle's property in Algeria, much to the disappointment of her scheming cousins Diane and Manuel. On the ferry she meets and falls for Pierre, an idle young man who has squandered his inheritance and is on his way to beg from Christian, his rich but rough-and-ready uncle, who owns a neighbouring farm to Claudie's. Made to work on the farm by Christian as a loan condition, Pierre is soon a changed man, and proposes to Claudie. But when his Arab friend Zoubir invites the Europeans on a hunting party, Diane and Manuel see their chance to move against their cousin.