亨利(考特尼·万斯 Courtney B. Vance 饰)是小镇上受人敬仰的牧师,他的妻子茱莉亚(惠特尼·休斯顿 Whitney Houston 饰)则是教会唱诗班的主唱,这对璧人在旁人眼中是一对天衣无缝的伉俪,可是实际上,他们要面临的问题远比一般人所设想的多得多。 作为一名牧师,亨利要做的事情并非只有传教那么简单,他还要负责处理教会中发生了许多棘手的意外,这令亨利感到疲惫不堪,与此同时,对于家庭的疏忽让他和茱莉亚之间的感情也亮起了红灯。某日,走投无路的亨利向上帝祈祷,希望主能够帮他度过难关,谁知道上帝真的实现了他的愿望,派来一位名叫杜德利(丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰)的天使来到了亨利的身边。
ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different' a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.
生化制药厂的老板Franklin(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)提供大量资金供让Susan McAlester博士(萨弗蓉·布罗斯 Saffron Burrows 饰)研究抗老年痴呆症的药物。Susan和研究小组在设备精良的海底研究中心,提取鲨鱼脑中蛋白质,注入坏死的人类脑细胞。为了可以提取到萃取更多的鲨鱼脑蛋白,Susan也同时加大了鲨鱼们的脑容量。这一举动让本来作为试验品的鲨鱼们变得更为强壮和聪明。鲨鱼专家Carter(托马斯·简 Thomas Jane 饰)因和鲨鱼们朝夕相处时发现了鲨鱼们的异样,并向Susan提出了警告,却得到了Susan的无视。终于,在最后一次验中,那些曾经沦为人类试验品的凶残鲨鱼们向人类展开报复……