简介：安妮（托妮·科莱特 Toni Collette 饰）和丈夫史蒂文（加布里埃尔·伯恩 Gabriel Byrne 饰）带着大儿子皮特（亚历克斯·沃尔夫 Alex Wolff 饰）生活，他们的小女儿查理（米莉·夏普洛 Milly Shapiro 饰）则交由安妮的母亲艾伦抚养 。实际上，安妮和母亲之间的关系十分疏远，艾伦去世后，查理重新回到了父母的身边。自从查理回家之后，家里便开始接二连三的发生诡异的事件。神秘的图腾，陌生的姓名以及神出鬼没的不速之客让这个家庭被笼罩在压抑的气氛之中。由于皮特的疏忽，一场车祸夺走了查理的性命，查理的死加快了各家庭成员之间的分裂，在安妮最绝望的日子里，一个名叫乔安（安·唐德 Ann Dowd 饰）的女人出现在了她的身边，她声称自己拥有能够召唤灵魂的特异功能。
简介：In the bleak filmscape of glasnost, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism.Made in 1988 by a young Kazakh director, Rashid Nugmanov, fresh out of VGIK (the national film school), The Needle was a pioneering effort in several ways. Having e from a remote, stagnant republic of Kazakhstan, the picture set off a movement that has e to be known as the "Kazakh New Wave." Represented by such works as Alexander Baranov's and Bakhyt Kilibayev's The Three (1988) and Woman of the Day (1990); Kilibayev's The Tick (1990); Baranov's He and She (1990); Abai Karpykov's Little Fish in Love (1989); and Serik Aprymov's The Last Stop (1989), the Kazakh New Wave was for the agonizing Soviet film of the late 1980s what the French New Wave was for the dusty French film of the late 1950s. The Needle was the movement's a bout de souffle. The film also became a model for the Russian version of postmodernism—uninhibited and uninformed, pensating for the lack of culture, skill, and resources with mischief and wit. A young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi, the late rock 'n' roll legend from the St. Petersburg band "Kino") returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend, Dina (Marina Smirnova), being a drug addict and himself being involved in the bizarre life of the city's underworld. In an attempt to save Dina, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock 'n' roll star, eccentric leader of the "Sound of Mu" band and the future star of Taxi Blues, Pyotr Mamonov), when one of them stabs him in a deserted park.