伊朗导演贾法·潘纳希(Jafar Panahi)正在拍摄一部儿童影片,影片讲述打着石膏的小女孩米娜·穆罕默德·汉妮(Mina Mohammad Khani)放学后没有等到接她的母亲,于是自己独自回家的故事。然而在拍摄公交车一场戏时,却突然发生状况。米娜死死地盯着摄像机,突然大喊“我不拍了!”任凭导演如何劝说,这个小女孩就是不愿继续,转而独自离开。由于疏忽,米娜身上的微型麦克风未来得及摘除,导演当即决定尾随米娜,跟拍她回家的全过程。虚幻与现实的界限就在这一刻模糊了…… 本片荣获1998年伊斯坦布尔国际电影节金郁金香奖、1997年洛迦诺国际电影节金豹奖、1998年新加坡国际电影节最佳亚洲导演奖。
Marple is extremely proud when she is appointed to the board of trustees of a merchant marine training vessel whose mission is to rehabilitate young criminals. As in all of her endeavors, Miss Marple intends to take an active role in the job and even shows up to the board meeting dressed in naval blues. When a fellow trustee is poisoned just prior to his making some kind of revelation, Miss Marple decides to use her position to spend time on the ship. This upsets the vessel's fragile social network as she dispossesses blustering Captain Rhumstone from his quarters. When two ship's officers are later found murdered also, Miss Marple enlists help from her friend Jim Stringer and Inspector Craddock to expose the murderer.
A group of insane asylum inmates flee a broken-down bus and occupy a nearby farmhouse. As they form a collective threaded by bizarre exercises and slapstick setups, the film spirals out into a freewheeling comedy of disorder, told with unusual verve and intensity, and featuring a dissonant, if deranged, soundtrack by free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman and his trio.
16岁的男孩Craig克雷格(凯尔·吉克瑞斯特 饰)经常会想象自己的死亡,在尝试多种药物皆没有效果后,自己来到精神病院接受治疗。在那里,他和一个自杀了几次却没能死掉的神神叨叨的Bobby鲍比(扎克·加利费安纳基斯 饰)成了朋友,还认识了一个特别的女孩Noelle,当然还有许许多多的“非正常人”。他们几个在医院的生活中,渐渐寻回了生命的意义,尤其是鲍勃·迪伦的歌词“He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying”给了他们巨大的力量,让他们重新拥有勇气去面对生活的压力。最后,出院的克雷格是否能让他原本阴霾密布的生活重见阳光,他又将通过怎样的方式找回轻松充实的生活? 本片改编自Ned Vizzini的同名小说,在布鲁克林的一所大学预科学校和一所医院取景拍摄。