一场世界性的扑克牌比赛正在人人趋之若鹜的拉斯维加斯轰轰烈烈的举行着,每天,无数的扑克牌高手从世界各地赶到此处,为的就是能在这样的权威性赛事里一决高下。在诸多的选手中,一个名叫哈克(艾瑞克·巴纳 Eric Bana 饰)的年轻人颇为显眼。在比赛中,哈克不仅屡屡创下佳绩,更是光明正大的将目光投向了冠军的宝座。
一次偶然中,哈克结识了美丽聪明的歌女比莉(德鲁·巴里摩尔 Drew Barrymore 饰),郎才女貌的两人一见钟情。比莉不仅为哈克带来了爱情,还令哈克明白了人生中除了成功,还有许多宝贵的东西。决赛的赛场上,坐在牌桌前的哈克震惊的发现,他所要面对的对手不是别人,正是自己的父亲。
Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps. The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial. -Steve Grayson my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty. - Jonathan Rosenbaum
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. Despite dire warnings by fellow scientist Ted Rampian, Dr Sorenson proceeds with the experiment after secretly learning that he is terminally ill. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.