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　　朱莉安（朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）和迈克尔（德蒙特•莫罗尼 Dermot Mulroney饰）是大学时候的情侣。和大多数的恋人一样，他们的热恋慢慢降温，直到沦为好朋友。于是毕业前有了这样一个约定：如果28岁之前，彼此还是单身，那么就明证了他俩是天造地设的一对，到时候两人就结婚。
　　毕业后二人一直通电，朱莉安以为只是友情。然而迈克尔的婚讯却让她如梦初醒——自己一直都还深爱迈克尔，此时强烈的妒嫉和伤心让她寝食难安。
　　朱莉安决定要改变这一切。她一手设计了一个个令人哭笑不得的“阴谋”，让迈克尔未婚妻当众出丑，离间他们的感情。当发现迈克尔对未婚妻的爱竟然占了上风时，朱莉安在婚礼上做出了疯狂举动，这一招果真气走了新娘。然而事情又有了变化。

　　百万富翁让-马克-克莱蒙特得知在外百老汇将上演一场可能关连自己“时俗讽刺剧”，他来到了剧院，在那里遇见了正在排练的阿曼达。导演认为克莱蒙特是最适合在剧中出演“自己”的人选，克莱蒙特答应参加这次演出，只为能再次见到阿曼达……

　　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.

　　在台北市即将进入联考的紧张又炎热的夏天里，刘志强整天幻想着带暗恋的女孩去绿岛上坐潜水艇游海底，做着“热带鱼”的美梦。在又一次令父母失望的模考成绩下，他偶然在电视上看见一起绑架案，试图只身解救小孩没想到自己反被抓了去。绑匪阿庆（林正盛 饰）是自乡下来台北混世的打工仔，勒索失败后他把两个小孩带回了家。阿庆全家人生活困顿却其乐融融，一面悉心安顿两个小孩的生活另一面想办法如何获得高额的绑票。阿庆甚至找来辍学妹妹阿娟闲置的书本让刘志强继续复习。最终，警察还是找到了被阿庆带到海上逃避追捕的刘志强，可刘志强却否认阿庆是绑匪……