1987年，星尤踌躇满志的杰克·坎贝尔（尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）告别女友凯特（蒂娅·利奥尼 Téa Leoni 饰），星尤只身前往纽约打拼。13年后，杰克已然成为华尔街炙手可热的投资经纪人，他的事业一帆风顺，生活奢侈优渥，身边美女如云，俨然一个完美无瑕的成功人士。然而，就在圣诞夜节的前两天，杰克的人生发生翻天覆地的变化。当他一觉醒来时，发现自己身在新泽西老家，凯特成为他的妻子，两人更育有两个可爱的孩子。全新而对立的人生让杰克无所适从，而他终将在金钱和亲情间做出抉择……本片荣获2001年美国科幻与恐怖电影学院最佳女主角奖（Téa Leoni）、2001年青年艺术家最佳表演奖（Makenzie Vega）。
回复 :史前一万年的世界，神秘而幽远。在终年为白雪覆盖的大白山上，生活着以打猎为生的亚高族。他们擅长捕猎猛犸象，然而随着猛犸象越来越少，亚高族也逐渐走向末路。具有预知能力的老妈妈临死前做出预言：亚高族将面临四脚恶魔的入侵，届时族人将迎来最后一次狩猎，在此之后一位伟大的战士就会出现，并迎娶躲避战乱来到部落的蓝眼睛小女孩伊芙乐（Camilla Belle 饰）为妻，最终带领亚高族远离饥饿。族人们对此深信不疑，耐心等待决定命运的时刻的到来。男孩达雷（Steven Strait 饰）和卡恩（Mo Zinal 饰）对伊芙乐都心存爱慕。某日，消失十多年的猛犸象群重新回到大白山，达雷阴差阳错杀死一头猛犸象，赢得了女孩的心。不久，野蛮的外族入侵，虏走了美丽的伊芙乐。为了找回爱人，达雷和伙伴们踏上了充满艰险的旅途……
回复 :"Veteran experimental filmmakers Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub helmed this unusual adaptation of a novel by Elio Vittorini. Focused on the triumphs and failures of a group of laborers and farm hands who pooled their resources to operate an alternative collective farm after the end of World War II, Operai, Contadini features a cast of 12 actors who read aloud from Vittorini's book for the duration of the film, either reciting from memory or using a clearly visible script. Hardly designed to be a crowd pleaser, Operai, Contadini proved to be controversial among the audiences for its showings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Directors' Fortnight series." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide"The group makes up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life and hunger, and to protect them from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, the characters build and invent a rapport both in their professional and daily lives between themselves, the sexes, generations, diverse social and geographical origins, and antagonistic political camps.The group maintains a 'register', a kind of diary, as if it were entering the minutes of an inquiry or a trial." -Steve Grayson"my favorite Straub-Huillet films are Too Early, Too Late and Operai, contadini (2001), both color landscape films with especially acute senses of place as well as of nature in all its harsh beauty." - Jonathan Rosenbaum
回复 :香港功夫动作片到底对好莱坞的影响有多深？本片是较早期的一个例证。从故事情节、场景布置、演员数量以至武打镜头设计，均大量移植港片，只不过导演约翰．卡彭特始终是美国人，虽然他卖力地想拍一部纯娱乐性的东方版《魔宫传奇》，仍不免会让中国观众觉得有点非骡非马。库尔特．拉塞尔在片中饰演卡车司机波顿，他与中国好友王记去机场接王的未婚妻，但她被歹徒绑架，主使者竟是修行两千年的恶魔。王为了救未婚妻，遂伙同波顿及一群中国功夫高手闯进魔殿，和妖魔鬼怪大决斗。影片拍得颇为热闹有趣，如将它视为用美国电影技术拍摄的中国功夫片当会发现不少好玩之处。
