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迈尔斯(伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰)本是一间食品店的店主,在去医院看病的过程中意外遭到了冷冻,这一冻就是两百年。两百年后,迈尔斯从沉睡中苏醒,世界早已经发生了翻天覆地的变化,残暴集权的统治者巨细靡遗的控制着他的人民生老病死,而“横空出世”的迈尔斯显然成为了这个社会中的极为不安定的因素。
就这样,迈尔斯成为了头号通缉犯,遭到了警察的追捕,踏上了逃亡的旅途。在此过程中,他乔装打扮成为了机器人,混入了名为露娜(黛安·基顿 Diane Keaton 饰)的女子的家中,见识了她荒谬的生活。之后,身份败露的迈尔斯绑架了露娜,两人却在之后的相处中深深的相互吸引,最终,迈尔斯还是被捉拿归案,而露娜则在误打误撞之中遇见了反叛军的领袖,加入了起义的队伍之中。
查理(查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰)是靠着在街头卖艺维生的小混混,一天,一个名叫利比(费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰)企图抢走查理的卖艺所得,结果被后者抓住,两人不打不相识,查理可怜无家可归流落街头的利比,于是答应带着利比一起表演。
聪明的利比有用极高的表演天赋,她的杰出被名叫潘斯特(雷克斯·哈里森 Rex Harrison 饰)的剧院经理看在眼里。潘斯特邀请利比去剧院演出,利比想带上查理,但被他拒绝了,两人就此分道扬镳。一晃眼多年过去,利比成为了炙手可热的大明星,而查理已久只是在街头流浪的乞丐,这样地位悬殊的两人再度相遇了。
卡尔(大卫·海德·皮尔斯 David Hyde Pierce 饰)是一位小有名气的作家,他深深爱着自己的妻子李(凯瑟琳·基纳 Catherine Keener 饰),无奈落花有意流水无情,李的一片真心却全部放在了当红电影明星卡尔文(布莱尔·安德伍德 Blair Underwood 饰)的身上,即便如此,卡尔还是努力的为妻子创造着出人头地的机会。
卡尔文因为一部名叫《尼古拉斯》的电影而获得了观众的认可,与此同时,凯瑟琳(朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)、古斯(大卫·杜楚尼 David Duchovny 饰)、尼基(尼基·凯特 Nicky Katt 饰)等人走到了一起。一天之内,导演展现了众角色之间错综复杂的关系,一场在贝弗利山庄举行的盛大生日晚宴将气氛烘托到了最高点。
John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
台湾正盛行的名模风,令女生没有完美的身材比例,似乎就愧于作为女人,但HBO自制电影「曲线窈窕非梦事」,却要挑战这种传统对女生外表的错误定义!
「曲线窈窕非梦事」「Real Women Have Curves」,是根据编剧乔瑟芬娜洛培兹自己的亲身经历,当时开始写剧本的她,只有19岁,由一个青涩的少女看未来的成年世界,也因为年少的单纯勇气,让很多复杂的传统价值观迷思,在她的笔下都有了解放。
尤其当剧情演到成衣工厂里,所有女工在炙热难熬的厂里,疯狂地脱下衣服,坦承自己所有赘肉食,更是让人想为这几个女生的勇气,站起来鼓掌!也难怪本片在2002年坎城影展中,被「综艺日报」列为「10位杰出制片」,同年更获得日舞影展两次肯定。
导演派翠西亚卡多索当初找赞助时,曾面临赞助财团因为市场性,而要求演员依旧要瘦瘦的模特儿,但在一路坚持下,她幸运得到HBO的青睐与支持,不过之后却也跨了美国4个洲、耗费了2个多月,才将角色一一找齐。
当玛戈特看到自己的未来妹夫马尔科姆(杰克•布莱克 饰)后,她深知自己猜想的没有错,她知道这个无业流民是无法配得上自己的妹妹的。
宝琳对姐姐的到来感到十分欣喜。一向刻薄的玛戈特仿佛为宝琳家带来了许多麻烦。就连宝琳的女儿也不喜欢这位阿姨。玛戈特不想自己的儿子与情夫迪克的女儿发生关系,她深爱自己的儿子。可是自己又周旋在丈夫与迪克之间无法选择。
玛戈特发现了马尔科姆与迪克女儿之间有不可告人的秘密,她想把这件事告诉妹妹,宝琳也讨厌玛戈特把自己的生活经历写成小说,两人争吵不断。这时候,宝琳从男友口中得知了他出轨的事,玛戈特决定与她一起回纽约去,姐妹俩都知道,她们是爱着彼此的……