简介：River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an anti-road movie, a deadpan film that is more existentialist comedy than crime drama. The young lovers in question are Cozy, the cop's daughter, and Lee Ray, a shady character from the wrong end of town. Lee Ray comes into possession of a pistol, and soon he and Cozy find themselves unintentionally involved in a shooting. Fearing capture by the law, the two make plans to leave town, committing a series of robberies on the way. However, they don't manage to get very far; indeed, the film's central premise is how the romantic myth of lovers on the lam proves disappointing in the face of a far more pedestrian reality. This well-received, low-budget indie was shot on location in South Florida, placing its story against an appropriately depressed landscape of sun-bleached strip malls, barren highways and overgrown, swampy fields; the title is another name for the Florida Everglades.
简介：诺维尔（蒂姆·罗宾斯 Tim Robbins 饰）从大学毕业后便来到纽约街头找工作，缺乏经验的他只能在一家金融公司里担任一名收发室小职员。不久后总裁自杀身亡，公司的实权落入了老奸巨猾的董事会成员马斯伯（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman 饰）手中，这本来没有诺维尔什么事，不料马斯伯为了达到他低价收购公司的目的，竟将看似愚蠢的诺维尔任命为他的傀儡总裁。而诺维尔此刻正在一门心思地研发他的新发明——呼啦圈，马斯伯想借此发明使公司的股票跌入冰点，不料呼啦圈推出后竟大肆流行，公司的股票直线上升。恼羞成怒的马斯伯开始在暗中大动手脚，将公司的局势搅得一落千丈，诺维尔也变成了众矢之的，甚至有可能被关进精神病院。绝望的他再次回到公司大楼的顶层，准备纵身一跃一了百了，然而就在此时，原已故去的前任总裁竟然出现了……