十年前,麦克(克里斯•波特 Chris Potter 饰)和他的搭档黑猩猩明奇侦探界的明星搭档,他们屡破奇案。但一次任务的失利却使得麦克心灰意冷,于是他退出了侦探界,专心照顾他的女儿阿梅利亚;而明奇也加入了马戏团开始了它的新生活。转眼间,阿梅利亚(艾玛•罗伯茨 Emma Roberts 饰)12岁了,凭借聪明的头脑她改进的钻孔机获得了国家科学奖,更获得了法尔里博士(理查德•坎德 Richard Kind 饰)邀请前往日本参加研讨会。然而法尔里博士其实另有阴谋,麦克和明奇这对老搭档必须再战江湖,救出身陷囫囵的阿梅利亚!
哈里斯(迈克尔·雷德格瑞夫 Michael Redgrave 饰)是一位教授古典文学的教师,他温文尔雅极具气质,一生都勤勤恳恳地工作做人。然而,某一日,他竟然遭到了解雇,美其名曰“提前退休”,而他的学生们竟然完全不以为意。与此同时,哈里斯亦发现,自己毕生研究的古典文学,如今毫无价值,而自己则变成了一个无人问津的老古董。 糟糕的不仅仅是这些,哈里斯本以为自己和妻子米莉(简·肯特 Jean Kent 饰)之间的感情十分要好,然而,实际上,米莉早就和一名化学老师暗度陈仓许久,对于这一切,哈里斯竟然一无所知。人至暮年,哈里斯逐渐失去了对于生活的信心和希望,就在这时,他曾经的一名学生送给了他一本勃朗宁翻译的《阿伽门农》,正是这本书帮助哈里斯找回了勇气和自我。
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid growing up to be a cotton picker all my life, begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
Edward Dunstan is an artist obsessed by his muse. Every photograph and every movie conveyed the same meaning What he wanted to see. His muse waited in vain for him to see her as she was, but he could not. And so, like the mermaid in his latest movie who grew legs and left him, so does his muse. For months his days and nights are filled with watching her on the screen. His anger turns to self-pity... turns to acceptance... Only now does he understand what he put her through. When his latest letter to her is returned, he binds himself in chains and climbs into the very tank of water his muse spent many unhappy hours.
Min Ji-suk runs a ticket barwhere customers can purchase tickets for certain servicesin the town of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. She hires Miss Yang (Ahn So-young), Miss Hong (Lee Hye-young), and Se-young (Jeon Se-young) through the employment agency. Miss Yang and Miss Hong, who are well experienced in this type of business, are used to accepting propositions from customers. But Se-young, who is dating a college student named Min-su, rejects all requests for sexual favors. When Min-su professes to having problems with his tuition and finances, Se-young reassures him that she will procure the necessary funds for him. When the bar's clientele begins to dwindle because of Se-young, Ji-suk reprimands her severely. Se-young develops a close relationship with a Captain Pak and even allows him to sleep with her. She asks Captain Pak to find Min-su employment on a boat, but when Min-su comes to Sokcho for his new job, he sees how Se-young has been making her living. Shocked, he turns his back on the job and leaves. When he eventually returns to Sokcho, he scathingly denounces Se-young's morality and severs their relationship. Decades ago, Ji-suk had stumbled into the bar business in a desperate effort to support her husband, who was serving time in prison; she later left him voluntarily out of shame and moral degradation. Concerned that Se-young will end up with the same fate, Ji-suk asks Min-su to meet with her. She begs him not to abandon Se-young, but he flatly refuses. Ji-suk reacts by pushing Min-su into the sea, and suffers a mental breakdown that lands her in a psychiatric institution.