可疑的顾问

　　20世纪40年代，美国某个依靠石油而发展起来的小镇。当地最大富豪彻斯特·康维（Ned Beatty 饰）的儿子艾尔姆（Jay R. Ferguson 饰）即将成婚，然而却有件事让彻斯特颇感烦恼。原来艾尔姆此前和妓女乔伊丝·雷克兰德（杰西卡•阿尔芭 Jessica Alba 饰）有染，为避免尴尬之事发生，彻斯特暗中授意警方驱逐乔伊丝，而小警察卢·福特（卡西·阿弗莱克 Casey Affleck 饰）成为了此项工作的具体执行者。卢表面内向顺从，内心却隐藏着不为人知的秘密。短短几周的相处，乔伊丝已然对他深深迷恋，不可自拔。谁知在最后关头，卢却对乔伊丝和艾尔姆痛下杀手，从此跌入万劫不复的黑色深渊中……　　本片根据吉姆·汤普森（Jim Thompson）的同名小说改编。

　　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...

　　Allen Meneric is committed to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane because of a brutal revenge murder. There he is forced to deal with the very ill and the dangerous until, as part of a socialization program, he is transferred to minimum security where he meets Mia, a beautiful bipolar female inmate. Ever haunted by his past, Allen seeks his redemption when sudden events demand that he protect Mia from the violence and chaos of the institution.