映画史に残る大人気コメディで、ジョン・ベルーシをスターダムにのし上げた作品。ジョン・ランディス監督が情熱にまかせて撮った下品で風変わりな本作が描くのは1960年代のカレッジ・ライフ。学生クラブ“デルタ”を舞台に大爆笑の生活が巻き起こる。「ブルート」ことブルタースキー役のベルーシに加え、ティム・マシスン、トーマス・ハルス、「ヒラメ」役にスティーヴン・ファースト、カレン・アレン、ドナルド・サザーランド、ピーター・リーガート、ケヴィン・ベーコンら名俳優が脇を固める。劇中に流れるオーティス・デイ&ザ・ナイツの「Shout」も素晴らしい。
成功と幸せに満ちた順風満帆なエリート人生から転落、凶悪犯が集結する過酷な刑務所へ収監された男が、暴力と謀略に溢れた、血で血を洗う熾烈な抗争を生き延びるために、明晰な頭脳を駆使し、肉体を鍛え上げる。そのためには道徳心すら犠牲にし、悪の道に染まってゆく…。容赦のないバイオレンス&アクション描写が全編を彩る。
疎遠だったとある姉妹。母親の死をきっかけに、彼女たちは1週間以内に住宅ローンを返済しなければならないという過酷な状況に追いやられてしまう。
Justine is a young woman with a fierce intelligence but an equally strong appetite for self-destruction. She finds herself suffocated within a world that makes little sense and where alcohol is the only escape from her view of a hopeless future. When she meets Rachel, the possibility of happiness, love and a future starts to emerge. But her pain goes deep and as the demons within her begin to surface, she wonders if she can allow herself to hope.
Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he's asked to train his replacement, Jevon, Stanley's weekend takes an unexpected turn.
25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.
Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship with his two bit criminal of a boss and an enigmatic detective, while at the same time winning back the heart of his ex-girlfriend, a working single mom. Never having a mother or father himself, Scott discovers the true meaning of fatherhood.
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of robbers whose boss is his rival for Kirk's daughter. With one day left in his probation, they goad him into a fight.
A boy goes to see his probation officer.
North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into society every year, they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook: 67% of ex-offenders re-offend within three years. What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration? Filmed on the street over the course of two years, Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts head-on the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs, where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity, where using offers an escape from powerlessness, and where prison is too often the next stop. The film’s unfiltered lense captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories, fears, and tentative dreams.
Struggling with financial difficulties, Max meets his old friend, who suggests him a way to resolve them. Not expecting a dirty trick he finds himself in a situation that goes beyond his usual reality.