Guy Normal有健忘症,还有点笨手笨脚。他被一个肆无忌惮的杀手头子掌控,被训练成了一个职业杀手,派去执行各种刺杀任务。尽管Guy错误百出,最终还是完成了任务。但是Guy并不喜欢这样的生活,他努力试图寻找到自己被遗忘的过去。相同的经历,使他爱上了老板的情妇。正当Guy重整自己的生活的时候,危险却渐渐降临。面对来势汹汹的刺客和重重阴谋,Guy能否逃出生天?
这是导演的成名之作,罗伯特自掏腰包拍了这部低成本的黑色电影,结果一炮而红。影片讲述的是一名心狠手辣的罪犯成功越狱后,来到小镇伺机找他的仇家报仇,仇家的手下只知道那个罪犯将武器藏在吉他盒子里随身携带,而从来都没有见过他本人。一名流浪的吉他手(卡洛斯•加拉尔多 Carlos Gallardo 饰)凑巧这时来到小镇谋生,于是,莫名其妙的他就被卷入了一场不知所谓的追杀中。追杀的场面被导演演绎的笑料百出,黑色幽默表现的淋漓尽致。
In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is trying to figure out what to do with his life. John can't be bothered with apathy, but no matter how much he wants to help people, he is too immobilized to do anything useful. Haunted by chronic insomnia and impending sense of doom, all he can do is watch, and John is an avid observer. Through his voyeuristic binoculars, he struggles to make sense of all the alienation and disaffection he sees in his neighborhood. In his journal he meticulously chronicles the mundane down to steadfast march of ants across his kitchen counter. John is desperately trying to keep one meaningless day from blending into next. He compulsively watches homemade videos of LA riots looking for a clue. But everywhere around him the city's social fabric is coming apart at the seams, and now it is John Boys's own threadbare ...
长久以来,剧作家大卫(约翰·库萨克 John Cusack 饰)都过着郁郁不得志的生活,艺术家特有的清高让他对如今腐败混乱的话剧界充满了失望之情。为了讨好情妇奥利芙(詹妮弗·提莉 Jennifer Tilly 饰),黑帮大佬看中了名不见经传的大卫的剧本想要投资,作为前提条件 ,大卫必须让奥利芙饰演主角。虽然奥利芙唠叨的个性和蹩脚的演技让大卫深感抓狂,但在利益面前,他痛苦的屈服了。就这样,一个奇怪的剧组诞生了。
故事发生在1929年的德国柏林。埃里希(弗洛里安·大卫·菲茨 Florian David Fitz 饰)是一位小有名气的作家,创作过很多脍炙人口的作品。一天,一个名叫汉斯(尼科·拉莫·克莱曼 Nico Ramon Kleemann 饰)的小男孩出现在了埃里希的家门口,他告诉埃里希自己是他的超级粉丝。刚开始,埃里希对于汉斯的存在并没有太过在意,但随着时间的推移,他发现这个脑袋里充满了奇思妙想的男孩能够成为自己创作的灵感来源。在埃里希的推荐之下,汉斯也得到了一个在电影里扮演角色的机会,一来二去之间,一老一少两人结下了深厚的友谊。二战爆发了,纳粹的铁蹄踏破了埃里希和汉斯的宁静生活。