马特·马洛伊

　　十六岁的黑人男孩詹姆·华莱士（罗伯·布朗 Rob Brown 饰）在篮球方面极富天赋，非常有潜力成为篮球界的明日之星。他常常与小伙伴们一起打篮球，他们注意到住在对面公寓顶层的沉默男人总是看着他们。这位神秘的隐士原来就是知名作家威廉·佛瑞斯特（肖恩·康纳利 Sean Connery 饰）。一次偶然的恶作剧让两人相互结识，威廉发现他在写作方面也很有天份。很快，詹姆凭借自己出色的篮球技术和优秀成绩，获得了一所著名私立学校的邀请。然而对于一所白人学校而言，詹姆却面临着艰难选择和种种质疑。威廉同意帮助詹姆提高他的写作水平。渐渐地，两人在交流中建立了深厚的友谊，循循善诱的威廉激发出詹姆潜藏的写作才能，而威廉自己也开始改变，终于走出避世多年的隐居公寓。

　　本片展示了画展开幕式之前一位艺术家的日常及其与他人的关系。生活中的混乱成为了她的灵感源泉。

　　西拉（香农·珀瑟 Shannon Purser 饰）是一位平平无奇的女高中生，没有美丽的外表，也没有过于聪慧的头脑，是那种丢进人堆里就再也找不着的姑娘。某日，在网络上，西拉偶然邂逅了名叫杰米（诺亚·森迪尼奥 Noah Centineo 饰）的男子，两人一来二去的聊了起来。让西拉兴奋的是，杰米是一个大帅哥，然而，杰米似乎将西拉错认为了学校里的风云人物维罗妮卡（克里斯汀·弗洛赛斯 Kristine Froseth 饰）。　　隔着网络，谁也不知道对面坐的是怎样的人，西拉决定将错就错，借用了维罗妮卡的身份继续与杰米交往下去，直到有一天，杰米希望能够和西拉视频，发现谎言再也无法维系的西拉只能选择撒下更大的谎言。

　　Jude, a college literature professor, falls for one of his students. She is more interested in the empirical experience of a relationship with a man whose life is ruled by the themes of the Russian Lit. he extolls in class. Jude shows an interesting side of the stigmas associated with transgenerational relationships and how to deal with the inevitable pain of a love doomed to failure.

　　希什（威尔•史密斯 Will Smith  饰）十分准确的把握了男性的弱点：他们在求爱的时候由于过分迫切想得到对方好感，反而会表现笨拙失去魅力。而希什掌握了一套完整的独家的理论，可以帮助男士在头三次约会时候就成功俘获对方的心，这套谋略全面实用，令约会期间的就餐、牵手、接吻，有了指导细则。　　这次希什的客户是胖男人阿伯特（凯文•詹姆斯 Kevin James饰）。他生性温顺，却爱上了当红女明星。于是对阿伯特的一番彻底改造在所难免。更重要的是，他竟然在工作中爱上了女明星的跟班记者莎拉（伊娃•门德斯 Eva Mendes饰）。这个自己感情一直空缺的约会指南者，开始尝到爱的气息。但是，好像现实中的爱跟他平时设计的并不一样。屡试不爽的爱情法则，在他身上反而失了灵。也许，他的爱情学问还远远不够精通。

　　1991年法国杜维尔电影节观众奖　　1991年圣丹斯电影节荧幕特别奖　　1991年圣保罗国际电影节观众奖　　高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后，父亲倒毙地上，母亲把她踢出家门，男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生，但他有个原则：质量至上，这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助，他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……　　When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.

　　Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.　　Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)　　As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.　　The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).　　Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.

　　当从曼哈顿搬到高尚住宅区斯戴佛之后，乔安娜（妮可•基德曼 饰）与丈夫（马修•布罗德里克 饰）都准备好了新生活的开始。乔安娜本想打好与邻居之间的关系，可是一众邻居太太的性格都将近完美，让乔安娜感到她们都无法靠近。这群有钱的太太中只有一名叫芭比的太太例外，她是乔安娜眼中的正常人，她俩也成为了好友。　　其他太太们每天都忙着照顾自己的丈夫，对丈夫言听计从。乔安娜与芭比都感到十分好奇，为何邻居太太们似乎没有自己的脾气与喜好。　　于是她们决定一查究竟，调查结果让她们惊讶不已，有钱的男人竟然把自己的太太变成了机器人，以求他们的妻子都千依百顺。这些一半人类一半机器的太太们背后有着“公开的秘密”，这样的黑手，也逐渐伸向乔安娜与芭比，她们将如何应对呢？

　　都勒（塞缪尔•杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰）是一个失意的黑人商贩，为了能获得孩子的抚养权，他费力地争取到了房屋贷款。在酗酒者分享会上，滴酒不沾的他难掩心中的欢喜，言辞激动。凯文（本•阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）是一家艺术品基金会的白人律师，他曾经帮助某富豪做过慈善捐助工作。但当老人死后，他却在上司的授意下，接连清洗了基金会的老成员，此举被老人的继承人视为背叛，一纸诉状将其告上法庭。　　正在此时，一场车祸让都勒和凯文相遇。因为拿错了对方的文件，两人的命运发生了改变。因为错过了约会的时间，都勒的孩子被判由妻子抚养，从此父子难得见面。而凯文也在法庭上被逼上了绝路，陷入了信任危机。这时，两人才发现彼此的对抗只会让事情更糟，但是化敌为友的路途却荆棘丛生……

　　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，他教学严谨活泼，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。