故事开始于1964年，代孕詹姆斯（艾米·汉莫 Armie Hammer 饰）是一名艺术评论家，代孕一天，他来到了著名艺术家贾科梅蒂（杰弗里·拉什 Geoffrey Rush 饰）正在巴黎进行的个人展览，让詹姆斯没有想到的是，自己竟然有幸遇到了贾科梅蒂本人，不仅如此，贾科梅蒂还要请他前往自己的画室，做他的模特。就这样，詹姆斯开始了和这位传奇艺术家的零距离接触。在拥挤而又狭窄的画室里，詹姆斯亲眼目睹了过人的天赋带给贾科梅蒂的预约以及痛苦。在画詹姆斯的肖像画时，贾科梅蒂反复撕毁了自己已经完成的画作，创作似乎陷入了瓶颈之中，最终，他能否如期完成肖像画呢？
回复 :音乐收藏家奥利·斯韦招募了他唯一的朋友，一个吵闹的俄罗斯流浪者，帮助他从自己家里的庄园里偷了一张78张唱片。
回复 :芝加哥又迎来了晴朗的一天，逃学高手菲利斯（马修?布罗德里克 Matthew Broderick 饰）自然不会在这天选择枯燥的测验，他伪装病重骗过父母，令同校的姐姐珍妮徒劳嫉妒。菲利斯找来好友凯伦（阿兰?卢克 Alan Ruck 饰），两人联手骗过训导主任罗宁，驾驶凯伦父亲珍藏的法拉利将菲利斯女友思朗接出学校兜风，菲利斯娴熟的电话骗术在凯伦和思朗的配合下将众人戏弄的团团乱转，学生们反而受他的影响颇深，在校内发起给菲利斯谎称的手术捐款。罗宁不堪忍受菲利斯一次次得欺骗，“微服私访”去校外希望能将菲利斯捉个正形，而在城中四处游荡的菲利斯三人则展开了一场隐藏自己身份的冒险……
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.
