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.。老鼠德佩罗自幼体弱多病,却拥有两只硕大无比的耳朵。童年在图书馆度过,慢慢的开始学会了认字,学会了阅读,他喜欢童话故事中那些英雄救美的故事,常常幻想自己也能成为一个英勇的骑士,在美人落难时拔刀相助。一次外出中,德佩罗认识了豌豆公主。渴望成为英雄的德佩罗,因为触犯了鼠国严苛的律条被父亲勒斯特驱逐。在多尔王国外的广袤土地上,德佩罗认识了同样被自己国家驱逐的老鼠罗斯库洛。
不久之后,流放的德佩罗得知豌豆公主被关入地牢,对公主心怀爱恋的德佩罗决定决一死战救出公主,会战胜邪恶赢得自己该有的爱和尊严吗?。伴遊女郎愛麗絲前男友車禍身亡,迫使她與拋棄多年的六歲兒子重逢,她用來保護自己的高牆也瞬間崩毀。不但難以維持自主的生活,長年壓抑的情緒也潰堤。儘管人人都渴望安全感,但有些人卻害怕與他人親密接觸,主角愛麗絲則在兩者間擺盪與掙扎;母子親密似乎天經地義,但假如你情緒上就是無法做到呢?如果沒有一起生活過,血緣關係是否有意義?愛能戰勝恐懼嗎?本片深刻描述兩個徬徨的靈魂如何掙扎著找到對方、進而找回自己。。