故事发生在风景宜人的橘子郡,朋友的意外身亡让原本热爱冲浪的肖恩(科林·汉克斯 Colin Hanks 饰)大为震惊,因为在此之前,他的世界中从来不曾出现过这样真实而又痛苦的事情。一次偶然中,肖恩在沙地里挖出了作家马库斯(凯文·克莱恩 Kevin Kline 饰)的小说《整齐的夹克》,这本小说彻底改变了肖恩,他决定放弃冲浪转而成为一名作家。 在完成了自己的第一本小说的同时,肖恩凭借着智慧和努力获得了极好的考试成绩,他将小说寄给了马库斯,将申请材料寄往了马库斯所在的斯坦福大学。没想到,一切的努力换来的却是拒绝的回音,原来,学校将错将一名差生的成绩单当做肖恩的成绩单寄给了斯坦福。在仅剩的24小时内,肖恩必须尽自己的一切努力来纠正这个致命的错误。
Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: to stage the play Antigone on the front line, in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters will be played by actors from different political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is soon called into question, and Georges, who falls in love with Imane, has to face up to the reality of war.
When a young boy's mother and father are savagely murdered, he ages out of an orphanage intent on revenge, but the love of a girl and psychological trauma lead him down a mystifying path.
An adaptation of his own novel of the same name. "Dix ans que les deux hommes s’étaient perdus de vue et puis, d’un coup, ils se retrouvaient au détour d’une rue, face à face. Le hasard, paraît-il, fait bien les choses. S’il s’agissait de lui, il aurait mieux fait ce jour-là de se mêler de ce qui le regardait, mais il n’y était pour rien. Skender le comprendrait bientôt, ce n’est pas le hasard qui avait mis Max et Madame sur son chemin. Il le comprendrait bientôt."
The story revolves around Gabriel and Idriss whose lives have taken very different directions since an argument. Gab is a cop in Internal Affairs who plays by the books. Driss is a fixer for the mob who sells his services to the highest bidder. They’re brought back together by the brutal death of Sofia, their childhood friend from the orphanage. Killed in a car accident, Sofia leaves behind Leïla, her 17-year-old daughter. Determined to find the killer, Leïla unwittingly tracks down the son of a ruthless businesswoman who relies on vicious henchmen to protect her family’s secrets. With no time to settle their personal scores, the two orphans must now join forces to find Leïla before she commits an irredeemable act…