In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she was off carrying on an affair with a married man. This movie dramatizes the court hearing held to determine exactly what happened.
赫赫有名的好莱坞女明星琼克劳馥(费·唐纳薇 Faye Dunaway 饰)一直都想有一个自己的孩子,然而她的身体已经无法再怀孕了,于是,她和情人格雷格(史蒂夫·弗罗斯特 Steve Forrest 饰)领养了一个女婴取名为克里斯蒂娜(戴安娜·斯卡维德 Diana Scarwid 饰)。随着克里斯蒂娜的年岁增长,琼克劳馥在影坛之中的地位亦越来越低,当她因为影片不卖座而遭到了制片公司的开除之后,她将所有的怨气都发泄在了克里斯蒂娜的身上。
琼克劳馥对于克里斯蒂娜的虐待日渐升级,她不仅常常对其暴力相向,还把她送进了修道院与世隔绝。克里斯蒂娜最终还是走上了和养母一样的道路——成为一名女演员。
Kazan adapted his own best-selling autobiographical first novel into this complex and turbulent portrait of a prosperous Los Angeles ad man turned suddenly and irretrievably sour to his luxurious life, beautiful wife and giddily successful career. Kirk Douglas' manic, high-keyed portrait of a man desperate to escape his gilded cage is matched by the nervous pacing and experimen...