小镇风云

　　本片根据家族小说的拿手作家重松清的作品《家庭餐厅》来做改编，聚焦了一对孩子已经独立生活只剩下两人的50岁中年夫妇，他们该如何适应这样的生活而引发幽默又温情的故事。面临中年离婚危机的中学老师宫本阳平（阿部宽饰）苦恼的同时，通过中学学生和料理教室的伙伴们的关系再度认识家庭，与妻子美代子（天海佑希饰）踏出新的一步。

　　老豹和棚棚是一个马场的马夫，也是一对好兄弟。一天两个人在马场一段对马精彩的介绍被导演看中，并聘请他们为主持人，最终两个人经过导演安排的系统的训练和培训，开始主持节目，刚开始还总是闹乌龙，慢慢地两个人的主持风格独树一帜，被很多观众认可喜欢，于是两个人成为红人。老豹也与Amy擦出火花这时有记者爆出老豹和Amy的感情，但是老豹却矢口否认，并且编造了自己的学历和家庭背景，这让棚棚很不理解也感到很心寒，两个人最终在节目里发生争执并且大打出手。棚棚回到了原来的马棚继续做马夫，而老豹过上了浑浑噩噩的生活，之后他突然觉醒，回到了马棚，看到棚棚，两人相视一笑，最终老豹坦然了自己的身份背景。

　　Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he’s asked to train his replacement, Jevon, Stanley’s weekend takes an unexpected turn.

　　影片的男主角基顿（巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰）是一名乡村影院电影放映师，他喜欢阅读侦探类的书籍，经常幻想自己就是一名像福尔摩斯一样的大侦探。一天，他把价值一元的巧克力糖谎称四元送给女友凯莎琳（Kathryn McGuire 饰），不料被情敌趁机陷害，说基 顿偷了别人的手表拿去当才有钱买巧克力。凯莎琳相信了谗言，遂将基顿赶出门外，并取消了二人之间的婚约。基顿查访之后，发现情敌才是偷表典当的家伙，但却苦无证据洗清冤情。某日，基顿在放映电影时，发现银幕上的故事竟和他的遭遇同出一辙，而且人物也雷同，唯一不同的是电影中的故事发生在一个上流家庭而已。基顿边放映电影边沉溺在电影之中，于是走出放映室，从观众席走入银幕之中逮捕情敌罪犯。可是进入银幕后的基顿却四处碰壁，一筹莫展．随着场景的变化，银幕上的映象不断从幻想变成事实……

　　A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge.
　　What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.