Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
To the streets, “Raq” Thomas is cold, hard and fierce — a successful and deadly woman taking names in a man’s world. She is tough, resolute, ruthless, but Raq still is capable of love. Great love. The sole recipient of that affection is her son, Kanan; he is everything to her. As much as she cares for him, though, there are many instances where one wonders if she loves him for who he is or if she loves him merely as an extension of herself. The middle child of three, Raq also carries the heavy burden as the earner for her two brothers. She is the sun, and everyone else in her universe exists in her orbit.
国际大都会纽约,迎来了繁忙的周一早晨。可就在这匆匆奔忙的时刻,曾经隶属苏联的太空垃圾坠落市中心,引起地铁事故。纽约铁路局相关人员进入现场调查,结果意外身亡。铁路局负责人杰森(帕特里克·马尔顿 Patrick Muldoon 饰)从验尸官那里得知,死者体内竟然藏着某种生物的卵。地铁系统持续瘫痪,种种异状又接连出现,杰森和同伴实地调查,目击了体型庞大、攻击性极强的成群蜘蛛横行的恐怖场面。它们来自外太空,隔绝异常的生活环境让这群生物拥有人类难以想象的威力。未过多久,军方在事发地设置隔离区,并倾尽全力寻找皇后之卵。
纽约人的生活彻底被打乱了,而死亡的阴影正悄悄蔓延到城市的每一个角落……
Richard Fleischer repeatedly turned down Dino De Laurentiis' overtures to direct the film. He ultimately relented when he realized that the best way to make the film was to shoot it straight and tell the story as truthfully as he could.
66岁的施密特先生(杰克•尼科尔森 Jack Nicholson 饰)退休赋闲在家,无所事事的生活让他颇感无聊。每天依旧7点起床,可是陪伴他的只是无聊的字谜游戏和令人生厌的妻子,施密特需要找点事来改变自己的生活,于是他打算资助一位坦桑尼亚的孤儿恩度古,并提笔给他写了第一封信。妻子的忽然离世让他的生活显得更加冷清,他曾至开始想念那个乏味的女人,可是就在这时,他在妻子的换衣间里找到妻子和另一个男人的情书。施密特决定独自驾车去旅行,他去了很多曾经生活过的地方,回忆当年感慨良多。在一时冲动亲吻一位有夫之妇之后,他慢慢的原谅了自己的妻子。女儿的婚姻比自己想像的更糟,平庸的丈夫和不可思议的家庭让他对女儿的未来愈加担忧,然而这一切都非他所能改变。旅途中他从未停止给恩度古写信,在信里,施密特详尽的描述着自己的生活和困惑。当施密特参加完女儿的婚礼,回到家时意外的收到恩度古的回信,看着那些简单的文字和恩度古充满童真的图画,施密特忽然泪如泉涌……