天生智能障碍的卡尔（比利•鲍伯•松顿 Billy Bob Thornton 饰）生于一个不幸的家庭：春暖迷信宗教的父母总把他当作上天对他们的惩罚，春暖因而十分厌恶他，老是虐打他。自小生活在阴影中的卡尔，8岁的某天撞见了母亲和一名拉皮条的人偷情，压抑的情绪瞬间爆发，他用弹簧刀将两人都刺死了。自此以后的25年岁月里，卡尔都在精神病院里度过。出院那天，无家可归的卡尔被精神病院的管理员收留了一个晚上，这是他第一次感到人间的温暖。出院后，人们都想躲瘟神般躲着卡尔，直至他遇上了好友弗兰克（卢卡斯•布莱克 Lucas Black 饰）。弗兰克将他当成自己最好的朋友，卡尔在生活里看到了阳光。然而最近，弗兰克一家被其母亲的酒鬼男友搞得鸡犬不宁。看到朋友受罪，忍无可忍的卡尔，决定挺身而出。
回复 :本片取自狄德罗小说中的一个片断，讲一个上流社会女子被情人抛弃后，想出一招：她鼓励对方跟一名有卖淫背景的女子结合，先实行广泛的保密工作，事成后再把这则天塌地裂的消息公诸于众。
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回复 :拉扎罗（阿德里亚诺·塔尔迪奥洛 饰）是一位内心单纯的年轻农民，坦克雷迪（卢卡·奇科瓦尼 饰）则是一位骄横的年轻贵族。他在Inviolata这座与世隔绝的小城内生活，这个城镇则由侯爵夫人阿诺西纳·德·卢娜（尼可莱塔·布拉斯基 饰）所统治。年轻的农民和年轻的贵族相遇并成为好友。某天，坦克雷迪自导自演了一场绑架戏码，希望骗到母亲的赎金，不料最终引来了警察……
回复 :Griff Bonnell and his brothers Wes and Chico arrive in an Arizona town. He is a reformed gunslinger, now working for the Attorney General's office, looking to arrest Howard Swain for mail robbery.Swain is one of landowner Jessica Drummond’s 40 hired guns. She runs the territory with an iron fist, permitting the town to be terrorized and trashed by her brother, Brockie Drummond, and his boys. Brockie is an arrogant drunk and bully, but he goes too far by shooting Marshal Chisolm in cold blood. Griff intervenes and knocks out Brockie with his pistol.Wes falls in love with Louvenie Spanger, so he decides to settle down and become the town's sheriff. Griff becomes romantically involved with Jessica after she is dragged by a horse during a cyclone.Two of her guns, Logan and Savage, attempt an ambush of Griff in an alley. He is saved by youngest brother Chico, who was supposed to be leaving for California for a new life on a farm. Chico's shot kills Savage, after which Jessica's brother and hired guns try to turn the town against the Bonnell brothers.On his wedding day, Wes is gunned down. Brockie is jailed for the murder. He tries to escape by using his sister as a shield, daring Griff to shoot, and is shocked when Griff does exactly that. Griff's expertly placed bullet merely wounds Jessica, and the cowardly Brockie then becomes the first man Griff has had to kill in 10 years.Chico remains behind to take the sheriff's job. Griff rides out, certain that Jessica hates him for killing her brother, but she runs after his buckboard and together they ride off.
