监禁

　　66岁的施密特先生（杰克•尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰）退休赋闲在家，无所事事的生活让他颇感无聊。每天依旧7点起床，可是陪伴他的只是无聊的字谜游戏和令人生厌的妻子，施密特需要找点事来改变自己的生活，于是他打算资助一位坦桑尼亚的孤儿恩度古，并提笔给他写了第一封信。妻子的忽然离世让他的生活显得更加冷清，他曾至开始想念那个乏味的女人，可是就在这时，他在妻子的换衣间里找到妻子和另一个男人的情书。施密特决定独自驾车去旅行，他去了很多曾经生活过的地方，回忆当年感慨良多。在一时冲动亲吻一位有夫之妇之后，他慢慢的原谅了自己的妻子。女儿的婚姻比自己想像的更糟，平庸的丈夫和不可思议的家庭让他对女儿的未来愈加担忧，然而这一切都非他所能改变。旅途中他从未停止给恩度古写信，在信里，施密特详尽的描述着自己的生活和困惑。当施密特参加完女儿的婚礼，回到家时意外的收到恩度古的回信，看着那些简单的文字和恩度古充满童真的图画，施密特忽然泪如泉涌……

　　Olivia and The Clouds explores love's complexities through a Rashomon effect. Olivia, haunted by a past love, hides it under her bed. She trades flowers with this ghost in exchange for comforting rain clouds.

　　An ambitious newspaper reporter (Dick Powell), eager to scoop the competition, wishes he could know the news before it happens. A mysterious old man (John Philliber) grants the reporter that power, even as he cautions against using it. Now able to predict the news 24 hours in advance, the reporter goes about scooping all the other papers, picking sure-fire winners at the race track, and enjoying life... until he learns -- in advance, of course -- of his own death. Our hero's problem: How can he keep the future from happening?(imdb)　　主人公每天晚上都收到一份次日早上出版的报纸，他获悉自己在数小时内即将毙命，然而他却幸存下来了。（乔治·萨杜尔《世界电影史》）

　　Driving home late at night during a heavy rainstorm, Glen experiences car trouble. Near where his car gets stuck, he spots a house, knocks on the door and is greeted by an oddly friendly middle-aged man, Arthur, and his younger wife, Cyndi. The strange couple pours him a drink, and then more drinks, followed by an unexpected offer that Glen can’t refuse. Elsewhere, a young woman, Katie, is feeling emotionally weighed down by a secret romantic arrangement that feels like a textbook case of gaslighting. And at the same time, in a nondescript research facility, medical professional Julie begins questioning her role in a bizarre experiment, fearing that she’s doing more harm than good.