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　　曾有过一次失败婚姻的上班族加贺美淳（安田显 饰）和第二任妻子千惠（荣仓奈奈 饰）已经结婚三年了，对他来说“三年之痒”近在眼前，他和妻子都必须好好考虑一下是否有必要继续维持这段婚姻。某晚下班回家，加贺美恐惧地发现千惠倒在血泊之中，但他很快发现，原来妻子在用这种方法逗他开心。原本以为只是一时兴起而为之，谁知此后每天千惠都要花样百出地死在加贺美面前。加贺美一面费尽心力配合老婆的演出，一面还要苦苦思索千惠这番作为背后的真意。为此他向职场好友佐野（大谷亮平 饰）大吐苦水，然而对方看似美满的婚姻也有着无法逾越的鸿沟。妻子的表演仍在继续，他们的婚姻将何去何从……
　　电影取材自2010年在日本雅虎知惠袋上的提问，提问者写下的妻子奇特行为当时在网络上引起很大反响。

　　来自新泽西的汤姆（Joseph Gordon-Levitt约瑟夫•高登-莱维特 饰）是一个沉溺于英伦哀歌与《毕业生》情境的年轻人。他供职于一家贺卡公司，任务是撰写富有创意的祝辞。某次会议上，汤姆的老板把新助理介绍给大家，她是来自密歇根的魅力女孩莎莫（Zooey Deschanel 佐伊•丹斯切尔 饰）。莎莫自幼父母离异，因此对于感情的态度与众不同。汤姆和莎莫没有一见钟情，但却在一次酒吧K歌后彼此示好，成了非典型的恋人。而且这段办公室恋情迅速升温，爱火烧得谁都无法预料。最后，在一个餐馆里，莎莫对汤姆说了绝情的分手。深陷情网的汤姆，经受不住失恋的打击，郁郁寡欢，周围的伙伴们希望帮他走出阴影，然而，这并不是故事的全部，本片以汤姆的视角把时间重新组接，让观众在对比中体味500天恋爱的弦外之音……

某天晚上，为了撮合治虫（圆谷健太 饰）和裕子（後藤ユウミ 饰），直树（上田祐挥 饰）、里美（国武绫 饰）、隆（泽村大辅 饰）、香织（柴田千紘 饰）、裕太（松泽匠 饰）等时尚男女在直树的哥哥浩二（新仓健太 饰）及其女友智子（若井尚子 饰）的家中举行了一个派对。四个小时后，派对在尴尬的气氛中结束，众人各回各家，但是复杂的情感漩涡却已将他们深深卷入其中。治虫将裕子带回家中，两人笨拙地走到了一起。浩二不满智子冷落了直树的女友里美，为此大发脾气。派对中直树专心玩游戏，倍感落寞的里美怀疑男友不再专情于自己。隆向香织表白，竟意外得到肯定答复。 　　欢声笑语，口是心非，男男女女万事皆备，除了真情……

安托是一个收入微薄的食品摊贩，为了娶到女友，被女方家里逼要一笔他不可能赚到的巨额礼金。绝望之余，他和他的两个穷朋友一起从祖父那里继承的古老咒语书中找到了一条赚钱捷径——乌鸦沙爹仪式。出乎意料的是，这个仪式带来了络绎不绝的阴间顾客。生活好转，债务还清，安托重拾信心向女友求婚。然而，随着时间的推移，这些阴间生物变得越来越贪婪，利润丰厚的鬼生意变成了可怕的噩梦

　　光棍七、冇皮柴是两名乌龙大老千，意外地骗取了大鳄金益公的僞钞，惹来其杀手癫马、铁牛的追杀，幸得孤儿麦斗相救。自此，两大一小成为莫逆之交。经历江湖种种危困，二人深感麦不宜漂泊江湖。此时，两人得知小孩原来是大鳄亲生儿子，遂迫他回到大鳄身边。岂料，二人送羊入“鳄”口，大鳄不但“拒收”弃子，更要杀死三人……

　　影片《绑架冰激凌》讲述了一个服装厂老板欲用“绑架”的方式请流行天后代言，却误绑了她的替身歌手，因而在阴错阳差间引爆了一场名为“绑架门”的娱乐圈爆笑风波，其中艺人叛逆、经纪公司雪藏、重金赎身、王牌经纪人大战传媒舆论等娱乐圈标签性热点话题均被一一捕获罗列。

　　身为汽车维修工人的吴宇川（吴镇宇饰），因为阳痿，跟妻子赖玲（梁静饰演）的关系处于崩溃边缘。有一天他遇上了算命先生刘老师（刘仪伟饰），刘老师告诉他将要大祸临头了。果然吴宇川事事不顺，他先是出车祸撞到了佳佳（应采儿饰），自己也扭到了脖子，然后在他帮香港老板秦龙生（秦沛饰）改装走私汽车时，又不小心把汽车搞砸，秦的手下尹志斌（那威饰）不断逼迫他还钱，接着他又怀疑老婆红杏出墙……不断的遭受打击让吴宇川开始相信刘老师的话，在刘老师的引导下，他认定这一切都是因为他命中有小人作怪，他必须要除小人，但懦弱的他又能否真的去杀人呢？

　　From members of Winnipeg’s infamous Astron-6 collective comes a loving homage and absurdist send-up of the Italian giallo genre. Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor the world had ever seen — but since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he’s had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he’s been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. The bodies continue to pile up as Rey struggles to prove his innocence and uncover the sinister truth lurking behind the scenes. (Tiff 2014)

　　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.