伊丽莎白一世时期的英国，午夜处处有风花雪月的娱乐活动，午夜然而莎士比亚（约瑟夫•费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰）此时却陷入了创作的枯竭期。他笔下的《罗密欧与海盗之女阿丝》因此搁浅。薇拉夫人（格温妮斯•帕特洛 Gwyneth Paltrow 饰）的出现可谓一石激起千 层浪。她酷爱话剧，不顾女人不能登台的世俗观念，不惜女扮男装前来参演莎士比亚的戏剧。莎士比亚洞悉了薇拉夫人的秘密。他从她身上强烈感受到创作的灵感，闻出爱情来到的味道。二人共坠爱海。他笔下开始有了罗密欧与茱丽叶熠熠生辉的故事。好景不长，薇拉要嫁入一个贵族人家。莎士比亚的创作如有神助，感情却陷入无望。但他还在努力用笔，用真情，去改写这一切。
回复 :6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.A brilliant and outragously funny satire of society, 7 December 1999Author: Dave Joerg (joerd000@mail.zdv.uni-mainz.de)"Flodder" is one of the funniest movies ever made and few people realise that it is a Dutch movie made by none other than the Holland version of John Carpenter, the famous Dick Maas, author and director of the thriller "Amsterdamned". The Flodder family is the reincarnation of the term a-social. When the whole family bunch, basically all bastards, criminals and sluts must be relocated from their City slum because of toxic waste under their house, the city council house no choice. The only available space is in the "Zoendal" - the "Sun Valley" the best area in Amsterdam where all doctors, snobs and businessmen can afford to live their lives. And where the central point of interest and politics is the tennis club of the community. The Flodder family brings devastation to the tranquil world that ruled before. They are simply unbelievable. The characterisation is incredibly funny, beginning with Ma Flodder who searches other people's trash cans for food or making illegal liquor in her cellar and ending with the eldest daughter who is the biggest slut on earth. Together they make the most horrible family imaginable, a sort of immoral mirror image to the Brady Bunch or the Waltons. When the City counsel of Amsterdam hoped that the Flodders would show their good will to be more civilised in their new area, it turns out that Holland's most famous family would rather bring out the worst in the rich people of "Sun Valley"-wonderland. The rest is a hilarious, brilliant and well made social satire that can be watched as a provocative movie as well as a straightforward comedy. Dick Maas at his best. I salute him! Flooder was the Dutch smash hit in 1986 and brought two sequels and a tv series. All of the sequels were nice but not as great as the original.Flodders (1986) is available on DVD in Germany in a dubbed German version in Dolby Digital 5.1. under the name:"Flodders -Eine Familie zum knutschen"Why is First Floor Features, the producer of the movie not bringing the Dick Maas blockbusters out on DVD in the Netherlands, I wonder. The are not even available on video there. These movies have so much potential, still to this day and have a huge silent but true following.
回复 :一次偶然中，海伦（海伦娜·伯翰·卡特 Helena Bonham Carter 饰）和玛格丽特（艾玛·汤普森 Emma Thompson 饰）两姐妹结识了威尔克斯一家人。在威尔克斯家所拥有的霍华德庄园中，玛格丽特和威尔克斯太太（瓦妮莎·雷德格瑞夫 Vanessa Red grave 饰）的感情最为要好，海伦却在和保罗（Joseph Bennett 饰）的一段短暂恋情结束后离开了威尔克斯家。威尔克斯太太死前将整个霍华德庄园留给了玛格丽特，亨利（安东尼·霍普金斯 Anthony Hopkins 饰）隐瞒了这一事实，转而向玛格丽特求婚。离开了霍华德庄园的海伦遇见了名叫巴斯特（Samuel West 饰）的男子，两人相处融洽。玛格丽特再度见到海伦之时，她震惊的发现，尚未成家的海伦已有身孕，这样的海伦遭到了威尔克斯家大儿子查尔斯（詹姆斯·维尔拜 James Wilby 饰）的厌恶和驱逐。
回复 :一文字秀虎（仲代达矢饰）征战多年，手段残忍。在七十岁时，秀虎准备将家业一分为三，由三个儿子分掌大权。他把太郎孝虎（寺尾聪饰）、次郎正虎（根津甚八饰）、三郎直虎（隆大介饰）叫到跟前，以“支箭会断，砚支箭折不断”喻语告诫三兄弟，嘱咐他们要休戚与共。三郎当场把三支箭横在膝上折断，以抗议父亲枉经乱世，而不知人情。秀虎大怒，将三郎驱逐出境。三郎遂到邻国入赘为婿。而之后一文字家果然被三郎言中，背信弃义的告诫果然成真，父子及兄弟间的纷乱开始，迎接他们的将是什么命运？
