巴里是小镇上的教区议员,生前的他再也无法想到的是,自己的意外猝死会在风平浪静的小镇里掀起怎样的狂澜。霍华德和雪莉是镇上的模范夫妻、西蒙是个喜欢在老婆和孩子身上发泄怒火的暴力狂、沃尔校长整日神经兮兮,每一个人都觉得自己是巴里所留下的职位的最佳继承者,并做好了十足的准备,为了得到他们所想要的东西而争得你死我活。
在名为“从地”的贫民区里,被小镇居民们视为眼中钉肉中刺的人们依旧过着日复一日的困苦生活,殊不知,一个意在将他们彻底“铲除”的计划正在悄悄酝酿。。The story revolves around Luisa Palmeira, born in France from Portuguese immigrants. In 1979, Luisa is eight years old. Almost a grown-up in the eyes of her illiterate mother, she remains just a little girl to her hard-drinking father. One day, he trusts her with a heavy secret: he suffers from a serious illness. But she refuses to believe him and thinks instead that he is hidi...。Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。