詹妮弗(劳拉·邓恩 Laura Dern 饰)是一名纪录片制作人,她正在制作一档关于世界各地女性生活状况的纪录片。一天,詹妮弗意外的收到了母亲奈特(艾伦·波斯蒂恩 Ellen Burstyn 饰)的来电。奈特告诉詹妮弗,自己发现了她在13岁的时候写的日记,日记中记录了当时的詹妮弗和骑马教练G夫人(伊丽莎白·德比齐 Elizabeth Debicki 饰)以及跑步教练比尔(杰森·雷特 Jason Ritter 饰)在夏令营中一起度过的时光。 詹妮弗幼稚的记录暴露了一些让奈特感到非常不安的消息,在奈特,以及未婚夫马丁(科曼 Common 饰)的鼓励之下,詹妮弗决定找到G夫人和比尔,询问当时到底发声了什么事情。哪知道这个举动打开了詹妮弗记忆力紧锁的潘多拉魔盒。
身无分文的记者丘克(Kirk Douglas 饰)流落一座新墨西哥州的小城,他舌如巧簧向当地报馆的主编推销自己,宣称自己有制造新闻的天才。波澜不惊的小城生活让曾经供职纽约的丘克倍感无聊。这天,主编令丘克外出采访,丘克于路却意外遭遇一名小镇店主里奥被困山洞。丘克敏感的意识到这件事情背后的新闻价值,他迅速联系州长、工程队与医生。随着丘克的一篇篇报道,观看施救过程的民众陆续赶来,本欲离开的里奥妻子因为看到有利可图而选择留下,并与丘克站到了同一阵营,丘克安排采用费时的营救方式来维持事件的新闻热度。几天内人群不断涌入,营救现场俨然成为游乐场。丘克与纽约的老上司讨价还价之时,洞中的里奥却走到了生命的尽头…… 本片获1952年奥斯卡最佳编剧奖。
《月光男孩》导演巴里·杰金斯日前敲定新片,他将把知名作家詹姆斯·鲍德温的小说《假若比尔街能够讲话》(If Beale Street Could Talk)搬上大银幕,故事设定于上世纪70年代的纽约哈林区,主角是一对刚订婚的年轻情侣芬尼(Fonny)和蒂什(Tish)。芬尼被诬告强奸,而身怀六甲的蒂什将四处奔走寻找证据证明丈夫的清白。梅根·埃里森创立的安纳普尔纳将投资本片,也将和《月光男孩》制片公司Plan B、杰金斯本人的Pastel工作室一同制作本片,10月开拍。
This film is an extremely entertaining psychological thriller with Carrol Baker excellent as a rich American widow getting away from it all at a secluded Italian villa. Enter smart aleck down on his luck playboy, Lou Castel, who has some golddigging motives behind his slick hipster seduction techniques and has no qualms about how he gets what he wants. He encourages Baker's character's incipient alcoholism and dubious self-esteem, brings in his supposed 'sister' to help drag Baker even further into a maze of sick mind games, drug addiction and group sex, all culminating in a descent into near-madness and self-destructive depravity. I won't give away anymore, suffice to say that the film delivers on its swinging sixties, Euro sleaze ambience and psychological suspense thriller credentials in spades. Director Umberto Lenzi's work has been, at best, uneven and he's churned out his share of crap. However, he made some quite good giallos and crime pictures in the sixties and seventies and this is one of them (other good films by Lenzi -- SPASMO, SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS, ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON, to name only a few). Unfortunately this film is ofen confused with another okay but not-quite-as-good Lenzi film that was also released briefly here in America under the same PARANOIA title (but is more commonly known, especially on video, as A QUIET PLACE TO KILL).