挚爱侦探

　　皮特金（诺曼·威斯登 Norman Wisdom 饰）一直希望能够像父亲一样成为一名警察，可是他天生一副矮小的身材，屡屡被警察局拒之门外。如今的他是警察局停车场的管理员，虽然和想象中的工作有些不同，但皮特金还是觉得特别满足。
　　一次偶然中，皮特金救下了一名自杀的少女，她的名字叫罗萨那（珍妮弗·杰恩 Jennifer Jayne 饰），罗萨那因为不满父母给她安排的婚事所以想以死相逼。罗萨那的未婚夫朱里奥表面看来只是平凡的理发师，其真实身份其实是黑手党头目。警方发现，皮特金和朱里奥的长相惊人的相似，于是决定招募他参与抓捕朱里奥的行动，皮特金只提出了一个要求，那就是案件破获之后，他要成为一名真正的警察。

　　切蒂奶奶被曾是警察的恶棍绑架，提奇和巴布于是展开疯狂大营救， 还带回一条珍贵的项链，并献上一场音乐表演。

　　本片是一部音乐歌舞片，集七十年代爵士乐之大成。在1980年第33届戛纳国际电影节上获得金棕榈奖，获52届奥斯卡（1979）最佳服装设计、最佳剪辑，最佳音乐三项金像奖。
　　◇剧情介绍◇
　　作为一个音乐剧迷，即使你不太熟悉金像奖导演Bob Fosse这个名字，我打赌你也一定听说过托尼奖和奥斯卡的大赢家《芝加哥》和《歌厅》，Fosse分别是这两部音乐剧电影版的编剧和导演，他的另一部著名作品就是这部《爵士春秋》。（其实只要稍微留意就可以从《芝加哥》的编舞上发现许多《爵士春秋》的影子，而且《芝加哥》开门见山的第一只曲子就是‘All That Jazz’。）
　　《爵士春秋》可称是Bob Fosse本人的半自传影片，片中的主人公是一位叫Joe Gideon的百老汇资深导演，他天马行空，我行我素，才华横溢，但是由于没有树立起远大的理想和正确的人生观和世界观，工作的压力和情感的放纵使他灰心厌世，健康每况愈下，最后在其作品的歌声舞影中，Gideon哼着《再见我爱》在手术台上踏上了不归之路。
　　人生就是这般无常，Gideon先生可以创造票房奇迹，可以吸引各式各样的女子投怀送抱，但他和我们一样，常常对心灵的空虚和肉体的软弱束然无策。有志趣相投的朋友聊天，有喜欢的文章可读可写，有好听的音乐剧可以欣赏，有幽默的心情可以时常微笑，有不含SARS病毒的空气可以呼吸――不知道这样简单的幸福上天还可以赐我们多久？
　　金曲提示：《在百老汇》(On Broadway)、《自君别后》(After You've Gone)、《重焕生机》(Everything Old Is New Again) 、《再见我爱》(Bye Bye Love) 。

　　乔（大卫·斯佩德 David Spade 饰）自幼就不是一个让人省心的孩子，总是不断的在制造着麻烦，需要父母不停的跟在后面帮他擦屁股。终于有一天，乔的母亲米西（夏洛特·麦金尼 Charlotte McKinney 饰）再也忍受不了这个傻儿子了，于是和丈夫一拍即合，两人谎称带乔出去旅游，借此机会将他丢到了一个完全陌生的城市里。
　　哪知道，乔出了傻的惊人外，还有过人的运气。八岁就流浪街头的他竟然凭借着好心人的帮助和自己的努力顺利的长大成人，不仅如此，他还得到了一份看门人的差事。成为看门人后，乔更是接二连三的遇见各路奇奇怪怪的人士，和他们之间碰撞出了一个又一个有趣的故事。

　　In this very late 60's irreverent, almost anarchic low-budget film, Brian De Palma defines more of his strange, given Hitchcock-like fascination of voyeurism, and attacks the issues of the day. The most prominent of which, both cringe-inducing and just plain funny, is when he focuses on the black-power movement (a black woman handing out fliers asking white people 'do you know what it's like to be black'), which is something that could only work for that time and place, not before or now.
　　But one of the key things to the interest in the film is 27 year old Robert De Niro (not his first or last film with the director), who plays this character who sits in a room looking out through his telescope at women in their rooms, setting up phony deals, and in the end basically throwing bombs. Those who have said that De Niro can't act and just is himself in every movie should see this movie, if only out of some minor curiosity. A couple of times in the film it's actually not funny, as when there's a disturbance in a black-power meeting (filmed in a grainer, rougher style than the rest of the film).
　　In the end it's capped off with a rambling monologue in an interview that tops De Niro's in King of Comedy. It's pretty obvious where De Palma's career would go after this, into slightly more mainstream Hollywood territory, but all of his trademarks are here; the dark, almost nail-biting comedy, the perfectly timed style of voyeurism, and interesting usage of locals. Think if De Palma and De Niro did a Monty Python film, only even more low-budget and in its New York way just as off-the-hinges, and you got Hi, Mom! It also contains an eccentric and funny soundtrack.
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