查克(汤姆•汉克斯 Tom Hanks饰)任职于美国联邦快递,他系统工程师的职业决定了他的生活忙碌、自律、充满时间紧迫感。而查克总能把一切工作都井井有序的安排在每天的日程里,时间就在他的控制之下。他无暇顾及的只是女朋友凯莉(海伦•亨特 Helen Hunt 饰)。
一场飞机失事改变了这一切。所有人都以为查克丧生于这场灾难中,然而事实上他活了下来,被困在一个荒无人烟的小岛上。荒岛上的生活就连吃喝都成问题,查克成为了现代鲁滨逊。但另一方面,他在这里却因为与大自然依存,与险境搏斗,与孤独作伴,与饥饿抗争,得到了以前从来没有领悟到的感受。当他回到现代社会时,人生有了新的开始。
Set in a small Quebec town in the late-1920′s, this emotional drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film pianist. Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually marries her. Shortly after this she bears his son, Pierre, who joins the army. She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son. Pierre is killed in the war, and Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist. She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up. Her son becomes a painter and once his own son, Antoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother. Intrigued, Antoine heads to the Big Apple in hopes of finding her. This movie is an emotional drama about how Antoine, played beautifully by François Méthé, discovers the details of his heritage. This film won many awards in Canada and at Cannes in 1988. François Méthé, who was about 11-years-old, never acted again after this movie. From IMDb A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who’s about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.