为了摆脱贫穷的生活，日韩人妻清冈球江（冈田嘉子 饰）抛弃了丈夫渥美俊荣（奈良真养 饰）和尚在襁褓中的女儿滋子，日韩人妻只身远赴好莱坞影视圈发展。在此后的岁月里，渥美投资渔业公司，生意越做越大，与此同时还迎娶温柔贤惠的真砂子（筑波雪子 饰）为妻。真砂子视滋子（小岛寿子 饰）若己出，滋子也深爱这个美丽的母亲，一家人的生活何其幸福。某天，功成名就的球将返回阔别已久的日本，此行的目的只有一个，那便是找回失却的女儿。就在此时，渥美的公司陷入财政危机，球江希望借机注资以得到女儿，却遭到前夫的拒绝。不久，公司倒闭，渥美一家的生活充满困顿。而两位母亲针对女儿的争夺也渐渐激烈……
回复 :年轻的露西（丽芙·泰勒 Liv Tyler 饰）带着她母亲自杀后留下的日记，来到了一个小镇上探访母亲往昔的好友，并住在雕塑家格雷森的家中。其实四年前，露西就和母亲来过这里，还认识了一个叫尼古拉的男孩。她曾经被他送上的一封信深深感动，并和他有过美好的初恋时光。如今，格雷斯家中异常热闹，聚集了各路人物，露西美丽的魅力让这里的男人们纷纷动心，其中患有白血病的作家亚历克斯更是难以自拔。尼古拉从国外回来，露西却发现他是个花花公子，枉费当年动了情。此时寻找生父成了露西的心结。她在这段历程中慢慢成熟，并寻获心爱那人。
哀同丝
回复 :「或许得开始承认那些令我们无能为力的环境，我们自己也得负上责任。我相信西方人的生活方式抑制了人们的潜能发展。你看本片，应该明白人类的行为有多愚蠢。紊乱将人蚕食，情况越来越严重」 ─导演 洛伊 安德森（Roy Andersson）极具野心的挑战性钜作，宗教、经济、世代关系、家庭、情爱，种种议题都经过奇特而荒谬的扭曲，呈现出世人经常视而不见的一面。如弥猴一般在十字架上单手晃荡的耶稣塑像、心智退化的老人在满室各怀鬼胎的贺客面前度过百岁生日、放火诈财的父亲，写诗发疯入院的儿子，独特的视觉语言，在看似连结松散的场景之间，构筑了导演心目中当代世界的深层面貌。在一个不知名所在的奇特夜晚，怪事接连不断地发生：毫无尊严的公司职员遭到屈辱的裁员；外来移民莫名其妙地被不良份子袭击，整个巴士站的人袖手旁观；玩大锯活人的魔术师真的把志愿上台的观众开膛剖腹。一团混乱当中，灰烟满脸的卡尔出现了，他刚刚放火烧了自己的家具店，想骗火灾保险金。一整夜，人人都忙乱的无法阖眼。第二天，局势混乱的程度有增无减，保险公司与卡尔正在角力，整个城市陷入完全动弹不得的大塞车当中，当一切在千禧年一开始就似乎都失去了控制的时候，卡尔慢慢察觉到世界的荒谬，也渐渐了解要作一个「人类」有多困难。这是一部由一系列小品组成的情节松散的电影，充满了黑色幽默。影片中每个人都变得失去理智，一些无条理的怪异行为发生了。一个小职员遭到侮辱性的解雇，一个新移民在大街上遭人袭击，一个魔术师在表演中出现了不该有的失误。在这些怪事中有一件特别引人注目，浑身是灰的Karl为了得到保险金烧毁了自己的家具店。最后他们体会到世界有多荒谬，做人真难。得奖：2000年戛纳电影节评审团特别奖
何维健
回复 :On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife.Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.
