奥斯卡（大卫·本奈特 David Bennent 饰）的家庭有些荒诞。他的母亲和自己的表弟相恋，日韩由于近亲不能结婚，日韩所以被迫嫁给了一位商人。奥斯卡是谁的孩子只有他母亲知道。在他三岁生日那天，母亲送了他一面铁皮鼓。奥斯卡十分喜欢，整天挂在脖子上敲。一天，奥斯卡躲到桌子底 下玩的时候发现了母亲与舅舅的秘密，他认为成人世界充满了欺骗，于是决定不再长大。当奥斯卡从楼上跳下时，奇迹发生了，他从此不再长高，身高永远只有三岁的水平！奥斯卡还意外获得了一种神秘的能力――高分贝的尖叫。当看到母亲与舅舅幽会时，他会爬上钟楼，用尖叫震碎所有玻璃；当老师责骂他时，他的尖叫震坏了老师的眼镜。奥斯卡维持着三岁的身高水平慢慢长大。
回复 :On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife.Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.
回复 :12岁的小女孩乔治亚失去了母亲独自过日子，从未出现的父亲突然闯入她的生活。1994年出生的导演夏洛特·里根自编自导的长片处女作，她镜头下年幼丧母的小女孩不再是可怜兮兮的社会批判题材主角形象，而是个古灵精怪充满幻想的小“社牛”，一向以炫酷帅哥形象出现的哈里斯·迪金森（《悲情三角》）饰演父亲，两人将一出父女重逢后相互慰藉、走出悲恸的戏码演绎得轻松无厘头又不失温情。荣获2023年圣丹斯电影节世界电影剧情片单元评审团大奖、入围2023年北京国际电影节主竞赛单元。
回复 :影片翻拍自2009年法国同名喜剧片，讲述两个战地记者躲在家里炮制假新闻，结果引火上身引发一系列闹剧。
