小姨子的用处

 一对年幼的兄弟跟家人一起从大城市搬到偏远小镇，却发现新家并不单纯。他们能否与新朋友们一起解开家中的险恶谜团？

　　欧文和艾德饰演两兄弟，他们奇怪的母亲自小就让他们以为父亲死了。当谎言被拆穿，他们便开始了寻父之旅。

　　希尔维娅（Penélope Cruz 佩内洛普•克鲁兹 饰）是西班牙某小镇上参逊内裤厂的缝纫女工，她与厂主的儿子乔西相恋，并怀有对方的孩子。优柔寡断的乔西发誓迎娶希尔维娅，却遭到母亲的强烈反对。为了拆散两人，乔西的母亲雇佣健美的内裤模特卢去勾引希尔维娅，与此同时自己也臣服于卢年轻健硕的雄性魅力之下。隐约感到女友移情别恋的乔西伤心非常，继而从希尔维娅的母亲那里得到慰籍。　　脆弱的爱情，混乱的情欲，一切该将何去何从……　　本片荣获1992年威尼斯电影节银狮奖。

　　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.