Toula（妮娅·瓦达拉斯 Nia Vardalos 饰）虽然在美国出生长大，沢作却是生活在一个巨型的希腊世界中，沢作整个庞大的家族以父亲权威般的意志为代表坚持着希腊是世界之源的精神动力，从小就眼观着家人古怪行为的Toula听得最多的就是母亲与神经质祖母的言论：嫁给一个希腊人，生一大堆希腊小孩，喂饱自己的肚子直到世界的最后一天。长到30岁的Toula邋遢肥胖，在一次夜雨中继续听着父亲的唠叨，然而当她走进日复一日工作的家庭餐馆时，她决定要改变自己的命运！她去学习，去美容院整理自己的仪容，当她浑身散发出自信时，命定的白马王子Ian（约翰·考伯特 John Corbett 饰）出现了，二人一见钟情，迫不及待要组织自己的新家庭。对这个庞大的希腊家族来说，Ian不折不扣是一个外人，婚礼的繁琐和斗争才刚刚开始，不同的价值观引发了一连串笑料。
回复 :十七岁的尼古拉斯和母亲及兄弟姐妹住在阿根廷恩特雷里奥斯省的一个小镇。他们的父亲是令人尊重的医生，尼古拉斯却和他关系疏远。他服从、却也恨着父亲，因为他只是父亲见不得人的双重家庭的产物，而他也看到父亲的双重生活给母亲和他的家人带来的伤害。但因为是长子，父亲希望他继承医生事业，还有乡下的农场，这给尼古拉斯带来压力并产生青春期叛逆心理。随着与父亲的关系越来越紧张，尼古拉斯觉得自己必须要做出选择，并为自己的未来做出行动……
回复 :泰德是一名年仅七岁的小大人，但智商特别高。身为工人的单亲妈妈根本没有时间和能力好好辅助他，只好将他送入特殊儿童学校就读。该校的女校长是位著名的儿童心理学家，她对泰德采取了另一套管教方法，这位天资聪慧的男孩夹在两个颇有个性的成年女人中间，一度陷入不知所措的困境。面对截然不同的两种教育态度，他将如何正确调适自己未来的方向呢……
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回复 :The subject of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dialogues. He maintained that all matter is made up of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be the last Greek philosopher to write in verse; two fragments of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nature). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his fellow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young disciple, Pausanius. When he was asked to return, he preferred to commit suicide by throwing himself into the active volcano at Mount Aetna.The German writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third version in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and all three differ in plot. According to Michael Hamburger, Hölderlin’s English-language translator,the main reason why Hölderlin finished no version of the play must be that he remained too closely identified with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as philosopher, prophet and priest – and as tragic hero – was subject to perpetual crisis and re-examination.Huillet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is based on Hölderlin’s first version (the longest of the three), whereas Black Sin is based on the third version.
