一向不景气的豫剧团接到了一个振奋人心的消息：鸟人香港某集团邀其演出。然而就在启程之际团长遇意外身亡，鸟人豫剧团随之解散。剧团里的三个好兄弟：马三（李易祥 饰）、刘兵（姚鲁 饰）和四海（金宏 饰）亦随之失业。马三失业后，无奈下只好把斗鸡作为谋生手段，其妻大红（小香玉 饰）一人分做两份工，一心想着出国；四海妻子素梅（徐帆 饰）去了深圳发展，四海贩起了狗，夫妻间渐渐疏离；刘兵靠老丈人的钱开了间相馆，可他却不满足业余摄影师的现状。生活所迫下，三个男人开始慢慢适应新的环境。他们的困惑也在改变中越积越厚，但是，生活的真相或许本是如此……
回复 :黄土坡村的青壮劳力在实行土地承包后，纷纷外出挣钱，只有一些婆姨们和老弱病残者仍留在村中。乐大同将赚来的五千元钱交给妻子常绿叶，想攒钱造一幢新房。常绿叶为做好春耕说服公婆用钱买回一部小型拖拉机和一些配套农具。在余技术员的热情帮助下，常绿叶带领婆姨们组成承包联合体，实行科学种田。乐大同得知说妻子将钱买了拖拉机，气得与妻子大打出手，并准备卖掉拖拉机。乐大爷及时阻止了此事。粮食终于获得丰收，但因粮站库房漏...
回复 :年轻的查理·金凯德在家中发现了一个秘密总部，似乎是属于一个超级英雄的。他告诉了他的朋友们，他们开始相信，与金凯德关系疏远的父亲可能过着秘密的双重生活。
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回复 :Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
