从小时候起，宿管蕾（内芙·坎贝尔 Neve Campbell 饰）就展现出了在舞蹈方面的过人天赋，宿管长大之后，蕾如愿成为了一名芭蕾舞者，并且加入了著名的芝加哥芭蕾舞团。然而，想在这一行业里出人头地，光有技术还远远不够。没过多久，锋芒毕露的蕾就遭到了同行的排挤，与此同时，蕾对于芭蕾艺术的探索亦走入了瓶颈。坚强的蕾凭借着自己的努力和坚持最终成为了首席领舞，但是，事业上的成功却并没能带给蕾快乐。正相反，强大的工作压力和人们期望的眼神令蕾感到快要无法呼吸，为了排遣心情，蕾来到一间餐厅，在那里当服务生减压。工作中，蕾结识了名为乔治（詹姆斯·弗兰科 James Franco 饰）的男子，两人之间产生了一段浪漫的情缘。
回复 :New York pretentious Diana Sullivan is writing a series of articles on the theme of "family" for Cosmopolitan magazine. Primarily to keep an eye on her but also because of the personal connection, Diana invites her mid-teen daughter, Grace Sullivan, to accompany her on a trip to research the next in the series, dealing with their own family, most specifically a wing that lives deep in the backwaters of the Louisiana bayou, which has been largely overtaken by oil companies of late. They are most directly connected by brothers: Diana's grandfather Mike, and Joe, the patriarch of the Louisiana wing. Diana and Grace have never met their Louisiana relations, they in turn who do not even know that Diana and Grace exist. As difficult as it becomes, Diana and Grace are able to meet their Louisiana relations, led by Joe's widowed young wife, Ruth Sullivan, who acts as if Joe is still with them, who sees anything related to the city as suspect, and who rules her household with an iron fist to ...
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回复 :影片改编自高尔基早期创作的若干短篇小说，主要情节取自《马卡尔·楚德拉》Макар Чудра。《马卡尔·楚德拉》是一则茨冈人的爱情传奇，讲述盗马贼洛伊科与骄傲的美女拉达之间的生死爱恨。 故事发生在19世纪后期奥匈帝国边陲比萨拉比亚地区（注：比萨拉比亚Бессарабия——德涅斯特河及普鲁特河之间的地域，10-11世纪归属基辅罗斯，14世纪属于摩尔多瓦公国，16世纪被土耳其占领，1812年归属俄罗斯帝国，1918-1940被罗马尼亚侵占，1941年后是苏联摩尔多瓦加盟共和国大部分地区以及敖德萨州南部，现为摩尔多瓦共和国）。主人公是四处流浪的茨冈人，他们的艰辛生活与奇特风尚在高尔基笔下散发出苦涩而热烈的气息。
