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发表于3分钟前回复 :Marg Duffield (Lee Remick) is the Maine wife of Al (Joseph Sommer) whose daughter Peg (Marlee Matlin) is deaf. Peg's husband is killed in a car accident on the way to visit the Maine house, and the Duffield's take in Peg's six year old daughter, Lisa, while Peg recovers. Since Lisa is a speaking child, Marg thinks of her the way she wanted Peg to be, and seeks guardian custody.Remick's role is secondary to Matlin's, though she is presented as a tragic figure, particularly as Al refuses to help her plan to gain Lisa. Peg's deafness is said to be from a childhood case of spinal meningitis, and the teleplay by Louisa Burns-Bisogno, with story by Louisa and Tom Bisogno, reduces Remick to a textbook mother who is self-hating from guilt and therefore cannot love her own daughter. In a memorable scene, Peg angrily signs her exit to Marg, since Marg has refused to learn sign language, though Peg has learned to speak for her mother.The treatment uses the Tennesee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, for therapy, to help Peg overcome her grief and also Marg `lose her unicorn horn' and embrace her daughter. Whilst Peg choosing to act in this play may seem an odd choice for someone grieving, what is more noticable is that Matlin is far too more glamourous to be believable as Laura. The Bisogno's include Michael O'Keefe as Dan, Peg's deceased husband's best friend and director of Actors Theatre for the Deaf, to offer Peg a new romantic interest, and thankfully she rebukes his protestations of love. Although his opinion may be influenced by his `crush', Dan tells Peg that being different is better than being normal, since the normal ones are as `common as weeds'. This philosophy reads as rather Nietzschean, on the level of artists not being restricted to the common moral code.Director Karen Arthur either has those signing also speaking or those signing being translated for the audience, though in one scene the sound of lapping waves drowns out the dialogue between Dan and Peg. She also gives Matlin some good moments, one being her scream of horror when she hears the news of the death of her husband, and another when she chases Remick down a flight of steps, hitting her.
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发表于8分钟前回复 :家庭富裕的波特小姐(芮妮•齐薇格 饰)至今已32岁了依然未婚,而从小很喜欢画画的她,多年来一直视自己所画的动物们为朋友。波特小姐的作品得到了出版社的认同,为她策划的是韦恩先生(伊万•麦克格雷格 饰)。韦恩先生一直被家中的两名兄长认为不是做生意的材料,他要借这次机会好好表现。波特小姐也希望做出点成就给母亲看看。事情发展顺利,波特小姐的书一本本成功出版,她与韦恩两人日久生情。韦恩先生在圣诞派对上向波特小姐求婚,可是他们的婚姻却没有得到波特小姐父母的赞同。一直以来波特的父母都想为她找一个门当户对的人,但他们还是为女儿的幸福做出了让步。波特夫妇要求女儿与韦恩先生分开3个月,看他们的恋情是否能经历考验。波特一家来到了农庄度假,期间波特小姐以书信的形式与韦恩先生沟通,突然她收不到未婚夫的回信,才知道韦恩病了,当她赶到时,韦恩先生已离世了。自此,波特小姐仿佛失去了画画的能力,她要封闭自己……