杰克(让-马克•巴尔 Jean-Marc Barr)在希腊海边长大,虽然小时候眼看着爸爸死于一次潜水事故,却没有削减杰克对大海的热爱。当杰克的朋友恩佐(让·雷诺 Jean Reno饰)找到他,劝说他参加潜水冠军大赛时,杰克答应了,在比赛中成绩突出勇夺冠军,并且得到了乔安娜(罗姗娜•阿奎特 Rosanna Arquette饰)的爱。两人打得火热,杰克却意识到他放不下、离不开大海。
意外发生了。好友恩佐在潜水中不幸丧生,杰克把恩佐的尸首放入大海当中,杰克的心中非常迷乱,他觉得自己不再属于人类社会,只想潜进深海,像海豚一样陪伴大海一生。尽管传来了乔安娜怀孕的消息,杰克深情的看了看爱人,转身投入了大海的怀抱。。1991年法国杜维尔电影节观众奖
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高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后,父亲倒毙地上,母亲把她踢出家门,男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生,但他有个原则:质量至上,这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助,他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.。