9月18日星期一,是放纵张扬的高校女孩泰莉·格尔布曼的生日,同时也是她亡母的生日。前一晚她烂醉如泥,睡在了有一面之缘的男生卡特的房间。她醒来后回到宿舍,匆匆赶去上课。夜幕降临,姐妹们为她准备了惊喜的生日派对。谁知在赶赴派对的途中,泰莉遭到蒙面男的杀害。吊诡的是,当她再度醒来时,发现自己又回到了9月18日的早上,数十个小时前经历的一切又不得不重新经历一遍,其中包括被杀的遭遇。就这样,抓狂的泰莉不断尝试改变命运,又一次次被神秘男人所杀害。
她仿佛落入了永世轮回的诅咒之中,无法超生……。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.。