亨利(考特尼·万斯 Courtney B. Vance 饰)是小镇上受人敬仰的牧师,他的妻子茱莉亚(惠特尼·休斯顿 Whitney Houston 饰)则是教会唱诗班的主唱,这对璧人在旁人眼中是一对天衣无缝的伉俪,可是实际上,他们要面临的问题远比一般人所设想的多得多。 作为一名牧师,亨利要做的事情并非只有传教那么简单,他还要负责处理教会中发生了许多棘手的意外,这令亨利感到疲惫不堪,与此同时,对于家庭的疏忽让他和茱莉亚之间的感情也亮起了红灯。某日,走投无路的亨利向上帝祈祷,希望主能够帮他度过难关,谁知道上帝真的实现了他的愿望,派来一位名叫杜德利(丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰)的天使来到了亨利的身边。
某实力雄厚、背景神秘的大集团展开公开招聘,经过激烈角逐,最终有8名精英男女入围最终测试。他们被带入一间近乎全封闭的房间,在测试期间只有三条规则:1)禁止与考官和警卫交谈;2)禁止污损考卷;3)禁止离开房间。违反其中一条规则,将丧失考试的资格。应聘者面前的考卷是白纸一张,却发贸然落笔也是污损考卷的一种。在各种奇怪的规则之下,这几位精英变得手足无措,个性张扬的白人男子(卢克•梅布利 Luke Mably 饰)率先提议应试者们要共同合作,解决问题。拥有不同背景的男女看似走到一起,却不知机关暗藏其中。 与其说是一场激烈的就业测试,毋宁说是一场人性与智慧的大考验……
The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a naval officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the Dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.