22번째 생일을 앞둔 닐은 큰 걱정거리가 있다. 자신의 미래에 대한 결정을 해야만 한다. 하지만 아직 마음을 정하지 못하고 있던 닐은 촛불을 끄며 미래에 대한 답을 달라고 소원을 빈다. 이런 닐의 사정을 하늘이 알아준 것일까? 닐은 아일랜드 요정 레프리컨의 아들이며 소원을 들어준다는 그랜트를 만나게 된다. 그리고 그는 미래에 대한 해답을 주는 매직볼을 닐에게 선물한다. 뜻하지 않게 손에 넣은 매직볼. 닐은 이 볼과 함께 과거, 현재, 미래가 공존하는 인터스테이트로 환상 모험을 떠나게 된다.
Joe Torre after failing to win a championship when he was a professional baseball player and as Manager to three teams is named Manager of the Yankees. And he finds himself having players like Dwight Gooden, Wade Boggs and Daryl Strawberry who are considered has beens. And players like David Cone who are ill. But nevertheless thinks he can win with them. At the same he deals with the loss of one brother and another brother battling the same condition that killed his brother.
Described (rather cheekily) by director Michael Snow as a musical comedy, this deft probing of sound/image relationships is one of his wittiest, most entertaining and philosophically stimulating films. In his words, the film “derives its form and the nature of its possible effects from its being built from the inside, as it were, with the actual units of such a film, i.e. the frame and the recorded syllable. Thus its ‘dramatic’ element derives not only from a representation of what may involve us generally in life but from considerations of the nature of recorded speech in relation to moving light-images of people.’”
