简介：美国芝加哥的午夜，杀人犯雷在警探迈克（克里斯·萨兰登 Chris Sarandon ）的追捕中身负枪伤，仓皇逃入了一家玩具店，走投无路下，雷念起咒语，将灵魂转移到了一个玩具公仔身上。在商场做售货员的单身母亲凯伦（凯瑟琳·海克丝 Catherine Hicks 饰）为儿子安迪（艾力克斯·文森特 Alex Vincent 饰）的生日礼物发愁，当她看到流浪汉出售的便宜公仔时，兴冲冲的买下了。而这个安迪渴望的礼物，实际正是那只收纳了杀人犯雷的灵魂的公仔。自称“楚其”的公仔在无人时便开口和安迪对话，并杀死了安迪的阿姨和自己昔日的同伙，安迪目睹公仔杀人的线索，却苦于无人相信。凯伦不久终于发现了公仔的秘密，但似乎为时已晚……
简介：In the bleak filmscape of glasnost, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism. Made in 1988 by a young Kazakh director, Rashid Nugmanov, fresh out of VGIK (the national film school), The Needle was a pioneering effort in several ways. Having come from a remote, stagnant republic of Kazakhstan, the picture set off a movement that has come to be known as the 'Kazakh New Wave.' Represented by such works as Alexander Baranov's and Bakhyt Kilibayev's The Three (1988) and Woman of the Day (1990); Kilibayev's The Tick (1990); Baranov's He and She (1990); Abai Karpykov's Little Fish in Love (1989); and Serik Aprymov's The Last Stop (1989), the Kazakh New Wave was for the agonizing Soviet film of the late 1980s what the French New Wave was for the dusty French film of the late 1950s. The Needle was the movement's a bout de souffle. The film also became a model for the Russian version of postmodernism—uninhibited and uninformed, compensating for the lack of culture, skill, and resources with mischief and wit. A young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi, the late rock 'n' roll legend from the St. Petersburg band 'Kino') returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend, Dina (Marina Smirnova), becoming a drug addict and himself becoming involved in the bizarre life of the city's underworld. In an attempt to save Dina, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock 'n' roll star, eccentric leader of the 'Sound of Mu' band and the future star of Taxi Blues, Pyotr Mamonov), when one of them stabs him in a deserted park.
简介： When smart, musically talented and popular high school student David Sinclair unexpectedly commits suicide, shock and unanswered questions reverberate throughout the school. David was perfect, so where did he or his friends go wrong His best friend, Chris Townsend (Reeves), struggles with his friends death and asks himself if he too is capable of self-destruction.