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　　几个芝加哥大学附属医院高材生，在好奇心的驱使下，策划了一场探索死亡奥秘的疯狂实验。他们轮流躺在手术室里进入死亡状态，再由其他守护的同学将自己救活。这场惊险又刺激的死亡穿梭，在一个漆黑的深夜里一步步的开始了。　　第一个进行测试的纳尔逊（基弗·萨瑟兰 Kiefer Sutherland 饰）在“死”去之后，遇见了因他的侮辱而死去的男孩。死而复生后的纳尔逊，虽然各种感官都变得更加敏锐和灵敏，却陷入深深的梦魇之中；接受实验的第二个人是好色的乔（威廉·鲍德温 William Baldwin 饰），他见到了各种色情场面，并且遇见了曾虐待过的女孩；紧接着，戴维（凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰）也接受了实验，他则将死亡实验延迟到了两分钟；女学生蕾切尔（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）更是在死亡时间里，重温了父亲自杀的经过。在体验过死亡世界之后，那些挥之不去的往日记忆开始无孔不入的侵占他们的一切。

 1935年5月，长征途中红军渡过金沙江进入四川凉山地区。这一带是少数民族聚集的地区。蒋介石为了剿灭红军，调动了几十万大军妄图把红军围堵在大渡河以南。为了能顺利前进，中共党中央委派刘伯承、聂荣臻带领红军先遣队为大部队开路。一路上先遣队英勇作战，同时沿途宣传党的民族政策。凉山地区，由于国民党反动派长期对彝族人民实行残酷压迫，民族隔阂较深。红军进入彝族区后，彝族群众受到蒙蔽，不明真相，对红军实行处处阻挡的政策。红军坚持严格执行党的民族政策，无论受到何种困难和刁难，都坚持不向受苦的彝族同胞开枪。这一切，彝族同胞都看在眼里，头人小叶丹深受感动。他们申明大义，决心军民结盟一起抗击国民党反动派。当时的红军参谋长刘伯承和小叶丹在彝海歃血为盟，先遣队胜利地完成了任务，彝族人民送红军踏上新的征途。

　　里皮（艾德·赫尔姆斯 Ed Helms 饰）三十四岁了，在这三十四年里，他的全部生活都围绕着这个生于此长于此的小镇，对于小镇以外的世界，里皮一无所知。一次偶然中，里皮获得了去参加公司在爱荷华州举办的年会的机会，这个天赐的良机让他兴奋了好长一段时间，他将此视为人生中的重大冒险，并为此而做了各种各样的准备。　　尽管有备而来，但里皮还是被大都市的繁华和先进震撼了，完全没有生存经验的他闹出了不少的笑话。在这里，一个叫做乔安（安·海切 Anne Heche 饰）的女子让里皮热血沸腾，与此同时，里皮的室友却又不断地拖着他的后腿。偌大的城市中，里皮这个小人物的命运会如何发展？

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.