戈尔（约翰•库萨克 John Cusack 饰倒的木偶艺人，耳光善于操作舞台上傀儡木偶。生活所迫，耳光他进入了一间纽约一间公司从事文件管理工作。这间公司在办公大厦的七楼半，由于它只有半层楼高，所以职员们都只能拱着腰工作。正是由于这样，戈尔偶然发现了公司的文件柜后面有一扇门。好奇心驱使下，戈尔进入了这扇门。当戈尔一进入门内，马上便被吸入了其中，并飞越时空进入了著名演员约翰.马尔科维奇的大脑中。他发现现在自己能随意控制约翰.马尔科维奇的目光，并窥探到一切约翰.马尔科维奇的私隐。十五分钟后戈尔自动被弹回了现实中。这一发现令戈尔兴奋不已，他决定利用这扇门做一笔大生意。
回复 :经过20多年，约翰娜返回到她青年时所住的前西德边境的村庄。她30岁初头，非常的迷人也很聪明，她被迫揭开了很早以前改变了她一生的秘密...关于新幼儿园教师的消息迅速蔓延整个村庄。人们一点儿都不了解她，只知道她的名字叫约翰娜。她看起来很不错，待人友善，但她仍然是这个村子的陌生人，一个讨厌的，为了自己的事情问东问西的局外人。约翰娜想知道“过去”的一切，尤其是关于发生在许多年以前村庄的那桩死亡事件。她很快意识到可疑的村民们保持着一种神秘不愿谈论过去的某些事件。约翰娜固执的迎难而上。她利用自己的性感迷人，使村庄里一个又一个男人渐渐透露他们的秘密...关于隧道用于从东到西的地下运输，从东部走私古董，以及杀害一名男子的凶手反对这种行为。曾试图阻止肮脏贸易揭发走私行为的正是约翰娜的父亲，而他以自己的生命为揭发此事做了极大的努力。但是，村民的仇恨并没有就此停止。继她死去的丈夫被宣判为“共产主义背叛者”之后，约翰娜的母亲被关进了监狱。与母亲分开后，约翰娜当时已失去了她的整个家庭。一步一步，约翰娜终于将事件拼凑完整。但是，约翰娜在玩的是一个致命游戏，她独自一人在这个村庄尽一切努力保护其黑暗的过去...即便是与她有着情愫的村庄警察也很难保护她。这时发生了戏剧性的对决，约翰娜终于与杀害她父亲的凶手面对面...
回复 :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.
回复 :影片改编自菲利普·罗斯2008年出版的同名小说，故事围绕上世纪50年代美国一名犹太裔男青年马科斯·梅思纳的苦闷与彷徨展开。