Sandy Kroopf

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

When shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to people on a plane bound for LA, an outbreak ensues. A doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into an epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, a drug mule from the plane, who was smuggling cocaine in his stomach, infects the drugs, which will be on the streets soon. And to top things off, her husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?

アラン・パーカーが、ウィリアム・ワートンの原作を基に、ベトナム戦争のショックで精神病院に入れられて、頑なに自らの幻想に心を閉ざしている青年バーディと、彼を立ち直らせようとする、同じくベトナム負傷兵の青年アルの心の交流を、鳥になることを夢見るバーディの幻想を交えて描いたヒューマン・ドラマ。カンヌ映画祭審査員特別グランプリを受賞。 ベトナム戦線で顔を負傷し、故郷に帰還したアルは、親友バーディを訪ねる。鳥に憧れ、繊細な心をもつバーディは、戦場のショックで精神錯乱に陥り、檻のような病棟で、固く心を閉ざしていた。そんな彼を立ち直らせようと、アルは必死に呼びかけ、自由に空を飛びまわりたいと夢みていたバーディとの、楽しかった思い出を語る…。