吉姆·麦考利斯特（马修·布鲁德里克 Matthew Broderick 饰）是卡佛高中的教师，欧美他教学严谨活泼，欧美为人随和友善，曾三次获得优秀教师的称号，为广大学生所喜爱。在他所教授的班级中，有一个名叫翠茜·弗利克（瑞茜·威瑟斯朋 Reese Witherspoon）的女孩 。翠茜高傲自信，力求上进，积极参加校内外的社团活动。她信心满满竞选学生会主席，鲜逢敌手。吉姆出于某些原因不满翠茜的作为，于是也卷入卡佛高中这场激烈的选举大战中来……本片荣获1999年美国演员协会最佳喜剧表演奖（Lisa Beach）；2000年弗罗里达影评人协会最佳剧本奖；2000年独立精神奖最佳导演、最佳影片、最佳剧本等三项大奖。
回复 :Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded independent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a lyrical story that draws on folklore and the supernatural.family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives to visit his old friends. He exudes an easy charm, knows secret past and present and is soon installed in the heart of the family. However, as his stay lengthens, so does he begin to cast an even more malevolent spell, provoking turmoil, setting son against son, reviving past hatreds, and inflicting a mysterious illness.Glover delivers a career-topping performance as the garrulous family friend, full of hidden menace, effortlessly evoking nostalgia and horror in the same breath.As ever, Burnett provides a wonderful music track featuring gospel, blues and jazz and a cameo from the legendary Jimmy Weatherspoon.'A slow-burning, soul-insinuating, 12-bar blues of a movie.' Tom Charity, Time Out'Danny Glover is marvellous, and terrifying, as a charismatic old-timer.' The Times(from the description on the back cover of the DVD)
回复 :波利娜因为担心哥哥而常常失眠。一次偶然，一个陌生的老太婆给她喝的茶，让睡梦的她走进了童话世界。她在这个奇异的世界里了参加了一场比赛，考验她是否具备成为沙皇女儿的能力。波利娜必须通过各种难关，才能借以另一个人的身份回归现实生活。
回复 :Another brilliant giallo thriller from director Francesco Barilli, whose THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK was one of the genre's most haunting and original films. This Italian-Spanish follow-up is a bit muddled, but no less engrossing.Set in a family hotel in Northern Italy in 1945, the film concerns Rosa (Leonora Fani), who helps her mother run the hotel while awaiting her soldier father's return from the front. In a Barilli film, nothing is as it seems, and before long Mom (who is sleeping with a traitor she's hidden in the attic) is murdered. Then poor Rosa is raped by two of the guests, who also are murdered, and while she's hiding the bodies she is forced into an orgy by all of the other guests. But before the guests get to far a mysterious man enters all shots the guests. Who is this mysterious man and what are his intentions for Rosa?Like all the best gialli, Pensione Paura completely dispenses with logic early on, elevating weirdness to nearly operatic levels while absorbing the viewer in a thick and spellbinding atmosphere of mounting dread. Francisco Rabal co-stars with Luc Merenda, Lidia Biondi, and Jose Maria Prada.
