Sisters Carrie and Anna Berniers have been supporting their ne'er-do-well brother Julian through various failed businesses; now, he returns home with a sudden fortune and his young bride. Jealousies both old and new will play a part as the sisters try to understand what Julian's been up to, and as his wife wonders if there's another woman involved.

二战期间，性格坚忍的雕塑家托马斯·哈德森选择远离人群，独自生活在巴哈马群岛。某日，与他关系疏远的儿子们的忽然到访，这让他手足无措。经过短暂的相处，在一次付出了血与泪却徒劳无功的海钓结束后，父子开始相互理解并重归于好。大儿子勇敢地参加了空军对抗法西斯，不久却传来阵亡的消息。面对孩子的死亡，托马斯从愤世嫉俗的孤立转变为勇敢的参与，并且为了帮助难民，最终付出了沉重的代价……

根据海明威名著改编，浓厚的文学气息与如画的巴哈马风景相辅相成，诠释出别致的岛屿文化。三段章节各有所长，第一节完全可以独立成章，钓鱼的张力与父子关系的现状和变化紧密结合，托马斯在最有敌意的儿子身上看到了自己的影子；而第三节里遭受海岸队枪杀的主角，更像是第一节里受伤的锤头鲨，孤独又无助。

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

后核战争剧上一小群幸存者中心现在构成了科幻电影的整个流派。所有这些，在一些这样或那样，可以从1951年中五人应对的可能性追溯到这一开创性的电影，他们是只有人类离开地球上活着。

A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.