The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
ジャンル : ドラマ, コメディ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 33分
演出 : Bart Freundlich
シノプシス
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
バーガーショップで助けたブタをペットとして飼い始め、愛情を注ぐホーマー。ところが、ホーマーのある行動から、スプリングフィールドは絶体絶命の危機に陥ってしまう。町の人々の怒りを買ったホーマーは、家族とともにアラスカへ逃亡する。
家出して以来初めて家族を夕食に招待したエイプリル。感謝祭の七面鳥を焼こうとするが、実は彼女は料理をしたことがなかった……。巧みな人物造形で描く感動作。
家族を顧みない父親フランクに育てられたバックマン家の兄弟4人。父のようになるまいと誓い成長し家庭を持った長男ギルをはじめ、兄弟それぞれの家族の生き方を、笑いと哀愁を込めて綴ったハートウォーミングなファミリー・ドラマ。
アイオワ州エンドーラ。生まれてから24年、この退屈な町を出たことがない青年ギルバートは、知的障害を持つ弟アーニー、過食症を病む250kgの母親、2人の姉妹の面倒を見ている。毎日を生きるだけで精一杯のギルバートの前に、ある日トレーラー・ハウスで祖母と旅を続ける少女ベッキーが現れる。ベッキーの出現によりギルバートの疲弊した心にも少しずつ変化が起こっていく。
雪深い山に金鉱を捜し求めてきた一人の金鉱探し・チャーリー。猛吹雪に難渋した上、転がり込んだ小屋にはお尋ね者のブラック・ラーセンがいた。やがて、同じく猛吹雪で転がり込んできた金鉱探しのビッグ・ジム・マッケイと避難生活を送ることとなる。寒さと飢えがピークに達し、ビッグ・ジムはチャーリーがニワトリに見える始末。やがて靴を食べる生活まで始めた。 ビッグ・ジムと別れ、麓に出来た新興の街にやってきたチャーリーは酒場で出会ったジョージアに一目ぼれ。最初はチャーリーの単なる片思いであったが、ジョージアも粗暴なジャックに愛想を尽かし、チャーリーに少しずつ思いを寄せるようになる。 酒場で偶然再会したビッグ・ジムと艱難辛苦の上、ついに金鉱を探し当て百万長者になったチャーリー。帰りの船上でジョージアと再会。めでたく結ばれる。
A blind woman and her husband live in a rural home. Regina, their daughter dissapeared, but in reality, Regina is been used as her father's pet. Her father Antonio keeps her in the yard while her mother hopes Regina will call home and wonders why the dog her husband cares so much never barks.
Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion
Grace, Daniel and Eamon, their hyperactive son, spoiled by his mother, envied by his father, go on vacation to an Irish coastal town for a few days, without money but plenty of hidden feelings inside them that they are unable to express.
A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and all the other relatives, close and distant, in an extended Persian family. Some of them emigrated to Europe or America, though the majority has stayed in Iran. Regardless of all the danger involved, they secretly meet after 20 years at a place which won’t raise suspicion among the Iranian authorities: Mecca. They come from America, Sweden, Austria and Iran to laugh, argue, cook and celebrate. This is accompanied by an excessive amount of hugging and kissing, and also a clash between Muslim and Western cultures.
A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.
It's Thanksgiving, and Amy and Alex are in love. But Alex's plans to marry his girlfriend are disrupted by the arrival of Will -- A stranger, introduced as Amy's brother. when Alex and Will find themselves on a hike together the next day, Alex confronts his suspicions, and discovers Will's true identity as Amy's former lover. With a rival at the door, and his fiance's intentions called into doubt, Alex must reexamine a future that had once seemed so certain. over a tumultuous two days, romance becomes resentment as questions of love, ideology, and commitment are all brought to bear on the lives of these three young New Yorkers.
When a sudden flood traps a group of strangers in an outback roadhouse it becomes clear that the threat from within the group is far greater than from raging torrent outside.
金で動く辣腕弁護士として知られるハンク・パーマーは、絶縁状態の父ジョセフが殺人事件の容疑者として逮捕されたことを知る。判事として42年間も法廷で正義を貫き、世間からの信頼も厚い父が殺人を犯すはずがないと弁護を引き受けるハンクだったが、調査が進むにつれて疑わしい証拠が次々に浮上する。
Two years after the death of his beloved wife, Pat O'Brien summons his children back to their homestead in the west of Ireland. Fionn travels from New York, Gareth from London, and daughter Una returns from Dublin, fearing the worst. Pat is not the only family member bearing the burden of a secret. The O’Briens is a modern comedy about a dysfunctional Irish family and the town they grew up in.
A group of family and friends assembling at a small New England island home for a weekend gathering at the behest of a war veteran. After their arrival, several members of the group are systematically picked off by an unknown psychopath.
Just after World War II ends a train carrying freshly minted banknotes in wooden cases leaves Hat Yai for Bangkok. Soon after it leaves the station the officer in charge of the detail with his friends kill those guarding it and steal all of it. However in the ensuing confusion they lose it and others hide it. However even they cannot find it later until many years after they begin a new search. The officer who planned the entire scam hears about it and follows them. Who will get the money?
A young woman is hired to care for an elderly man who lives on an island off the Greek coast. When she arrives there the man warns her that his daughters are evil and dangerous. The woman discovers that one of the daughters is a crazed nymphomaniac who pursues, and seduces, everyone in the house, including her crippled sister.
Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne...
Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back...
