简介：Marg Duffield (Lee Remick) is the Maine wife of Al (Joseph Sommer) whose daughter Peg (Marlee Matlin) is deaf. Peg's husband is killed in a car accident on the way to visit the Maine house, and the Duffield's take in Peg's six year old daughter, Lisa, while Peg recovers. Since Lisa is a speaking child, Marg thinks of her the way she wanted Peg to be, and seeks guardian custody.Remick's role is secondary to Matlin's, though she is presented as a tragic figure, particularly as Al refuses to help her plan to gain Lisa. Peg's deafness is said to be from a childhood case of spinal meningitis, and the teleplay by Louisa Burns-Bisogno, with story by Louisa and Tom Bisogno, reduces Remick to a textbook mother who is self-hating from guilt and therefore cannot love her own daughter. In a memorable scene, Peg angrily signs her exit to Marg, since Marg has refused to learn sign language, though Peg has learned to speak for her mother.The treatment uses the Tennesee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, for therapy, to help Peg overcome her grief and also Marg `lose her unicorn horn' and embrace her daughter. Whilst Peg choosing to act in this play may seem an odd choice for someone grieving, what is more noticable is that Matlin is far too more glamourous to be believable as Laura. The Bisogno's include Michael O'Keefe as Dan, Peg's deceased husband's best friend and director of Actors Theatre for the Deaf, to offer Peg a new romantic interest, and thankfully she rebukes his protestations of love. Although his opinion may be influenced by his `crush', Dan tells Peg that being different is better than being normal, since the normal ones are as `common as weeds'. This philosophy reads as rather Nietzschean, on the level of artists not being restricted to the common moral code.Director Karen Arthur either has those signing also speaking or those signing being translated for the audience, though in one scene the sound of lapping waves drowns out the dialogue between Dan and Peg. She also gives Matlin some good moments, one being her scream of horror when she hears the news of the death of her husband, and another when she chases Remick down a flight of steps, hitting her.
简介：泰德（基努·里维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）和比尔（亚历克斯·温特 Alex Winter 饰）是就读于同一所高中的同学，两人之间感情十分要好。也许，他们会如此一见如故的原因在于，两人的智商处在同一水平线上，没错，就是那条比别人都低的水平线。更糟糕的是，比尔和泰德在一起只晓得整日游手好闲，丝毫不将心思放在学习上，成绩可想而知。历史考试在即，就在这个节骨眼上，泰德和比尔得知了一个惊天噩耗，如果不能通过这次考试，他们就将无法拿到毕业证书，一下子懵了的两人陷入了手足无措之中。就在此时，一位名叫鲁佛斯（乔治·卡林 George Carlin 饰）的天外来客出现在了他们面前，他自称来自未来世界。无论鲁佛斯所言是真是假，泰德和比尔明白，他是他们那道毕业证书的唯一一根救命稻草。