海伦·麦克洛瑞 — 演员 (50)
盲目飞行 (2012) [电影] IMDb 豆瓣
Flying Blind
导演:
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz
演员:
海伦·麦克洛瑞
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肯内斯·库兰汉姆
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其它标题:
Flying Blind
/
盲目飛行
Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Shes never married, and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father, who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student, twenty years younger than her. One day, she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.
Leaving (2012) [剧集] TMDB IMDb 维基数据
Leaving
7.4 (16 个评分)
演员:
Helen McCrory
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Callum Turner
…
其它标题:
Halb so alt wie sie
tv show aired in 2012
美狄亚 英国国家剧院现场版 [演出] 豆瓣
所属 演出: 美狄亚
导演:
凯莉·克拉克奈尔
其它标题:
英国国家剧院现场版
演员:
海伦·麦克洛瑞
The play tells the story of the revenge of a woman betrayed by her husband. All of the action of the play is at Corinth, where Jason has brought Medea after the adventures of the Golden Fleece. He has now left her in order to marry Glauce, the daughter of King Creon. (Glauce is also known in Latin works as Creusa — see Seneca the Younger's Medea and Propertius 2.16.30. This King Creon is not to be confused with King Creon of Thebes.) The play opens with Medea grieving over her loss and with her elderly nurse fearing what she might do to herself or her children.
Creon, also fearing what Medea might do, arrives determined to send Medea into exile. Medea pleads for one day's delay, and Creon begrudgingly acquiesces. In the next scene Jason arrives to confront her and explain himself. He believes he could not pass up the opportunity to marry a royal princess, as Medea is only a barbarian woman, but hopes to someday join the two families and keep Medea as his mistress. Medea, and the chorus of Corinthian women, do not believe him. She reminds him that she left her own people for him ("I am the mother of your children. Whither can I fly, since all Greece hates the barbarian?"), and that she saved him and slew the dragon. Jason promises to support her after his new marriage, but Medea spurns him: "Marry the maid if thou wilt; perchance full soon thou mayst rue thy nuptials."
Next Medea is visited by Aegeus, King of Athens; he is aggrieved by his lack of children, and does not understand the oracle that was supposed to give him guidance. Medea begs him to protect her, in return for her helping his wife conceive a child. Aegeus does not know what Medea is going to do in Corinth, but promises to give her refuge in any case, provided she can escape to Athens.
Medea then returns to her plotting how she may kill Creon and Glauce. She decides to poison some golden robes (a family heirloom and gift from the sun god), in hopes that the bride will not be able to resist wearing them, and consequently be poisoned. Medea resolves to kill her own children as well, not because the children have done anything wrong, but because she feels it is the best way to hurt Jason. She calls for Jason once more, falsely apologizes to him, and sends the poisoned robes with her children as the gift-bearers.
Forgive what I said in anger! I will yield to the decree, and only beg one favor, that my children may stay. They shall take to the princess a costly robe and a golden crown, and pray for her protection.
The request is granted and the gifts are accepted. Offstage, while Medea ponders her actions, Glauce is killed by the poisoned dress, and Creon is also killed by the poison while attempting to save her. These events are related by a messenger.
Alas! The bride had died in horrible agony; for no sooner had she put on Medea's gifts than a devouring poison consumed her limbs as with fire, and in his endeavor to save his daughter the old father died too.
Medea is pleased with her revenge thus far, but resolves to carry it further: to utterly destroy Jason's plans for a new family, she will kill her own sons. She rushes offstage with a knife to kill her children. As the chorus laments her decision, the children are heard screaming. Jason rushes to the scene to punish her for the murder of Glauce and learns that his children too have been killed. Medea then appears above the stage in the chariot of the sun god Helios; this was probably accomplished using the mechane device usually reserved for the appearance of a god or goddess. She confronts Jason, reveling in his pain at being unable to ever hold his children again:
"I do not leave my children's bodies with thee; I take them with me that I may bury them in Hera's precinct. And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom."
She escapes to Athens with the bodies. The chorus is left contemplating the will of Zeus in Medea's actions:
Manifold are thy shapings, Providence!
Many a hopeless matter gods arrange.
What we expected never came to pass,
What we did not expect the gods brought to bear;
So have things gone, this whole experience through!
Creon, also fearing what Medea might do, arrives determined to send Medea into exile. Medea pleads for one day's delay, and Creon begrudgingly acquiesces. In the next scene Jason arrives to confront her and explain himself. He believes he could not pass up the opportunity to marry a royal princess, as Medea is only a barbarian woman, but hopes to someday join the two families and keep Medea as his mistress. Medea, and the chorus of Corinthian women, do not believe him. She reminds him that she left her own people for him ("I am the mother of your children. Whither can I fly, since all Greece hates the barbarian?"), and that she saved him and slew the dragon. Jason promises to support her after his new marriage, but Medea spurns him: "Marry the maid if thou wilt; perchance full soon thou mayst rue thy nuptials."
Next Medea is visited by Aegeus, King of Athens; he is aggrieved by his lack of children, and does not understand the oracle that was supposed to give him guidance. Medea begs him to protect her, in return for her helping his wife conceive a child. Aegeus does not know what Medea is going to do in Corinth, but promises to give her refuge in any case, provided she can escape to Athens.
Medea then returns to her plotting how she may kill Creon and Glauce. She decides to poison some golden robes (a family heirloom and gift from the sun god), in hopes that the bride will not be able to resist wearing them, and consequently be poisoned. Medea resolves to kill her own children as well, not because the children have done anything wrong, but because she feels it is the best way to hurt Jason. She calls for Jason once more, falsely apologizes to him, and sends the poisoned robes with her children as the gift-bearers.
Forgive what I said in anger! I will yield to the decree, and only beg one favor, that my children may stay. They shall take to the princess a costly robe and a golden crown, and pray for her protection.
The request is granted and the gifts are accepted. Offstage, while Medea ponders her actions, Glauce is killed by the poisoned dress, and Creon is also killed by the poison while attempting to save her. These events are related by a messenger.
Alas! The bride had died in horrible agony; for no sooner had she put on Medea's gifts than a devouring poison consumed her limbs as with fire, and in his endeavor to save his daughter the old father died too.
Medea is pleased with her revenge thus far, but resolves to carry it further: to utterly destroy Jason's plans for a new family, she will kill her own sons. She rushes offstage with a knife to kill her children. As the chorus laments her decision, the children are heard screaming. Jason rushes to the scene to punish her for the murder of Glauce and learns that his children too have been killed. Medea then appears above the stage in the chariot of the sun god Helios; this was probably accomplished using the mechane device usually reserved for the appearance of a god or goddess. She confronts Jason, reveling in his pain at being unable to ever hold his children again:
"I do not leave my children's bodies with thee; I take them with me that I may bury them in Hera's precinct. And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom."
She escapes to Athens with the bodies. The chorus is left contemplating the will of Zeus in Medea's actions:
Manifold are thy shapings, Providence!
Many a hopeless matter gods arrange.
What we expected never came to pass,
What we did not expect the gods brought to bear;
So have things gone, this whole experience through!
Medea [演出] 豆瓣
类型:
theater
编剧:
Ben Power
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Simon Stone
导演:
Carrie Cracknell
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Simon Stone
演员:
Helen McCrory
/
Rose Byrne
/
Bobby Cannavale
/
Dylan Baker
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Madeline Weinstein
Euripides’ controversial icon is reborn in visionary director Simon Stone’s (Yerma) stunning contemporary rewrite. Rose Byrne (Damages, Bridesmaids, You Can’t Take It with You) and Bobby Cannavale (The Lifespan of a Fact, The Hairy Ape, The Motherf**ker with the Hat) face off as a husband and wife in the tumultuous throes of an unraveling marriage. Transposing the devastation of Greek tragedy to a modern American home, Stone’s stripped-bare staging throws the couple’s every raw emotion into stark relief, from jealousy to passion, humor to despair. Who will pay the price?
蔚蓝深海 英国国家剧院版 [演出] 豆瓣
所属 演出: 蔚蓝深海
当陷入婚姻倦怠的法官之妻Hester Collyer(海伦•麦克洛瑞饰演)被邻居们发现自杀未遂的时候,她和前皇家空军飞行员Freddie(汤姆•伯克饰演)的婚外恋情以及和丈夫William Collyer感情破裂的事实浮出水面。寂寞、压抑和情感渴求,在二战后虚伪而脆弱的复苏表象背后,有一种残酷的渴望和绝望在燃烧。
该剧为英国舞台剧作家泰伦斯•拉提根(Terence Rattigan)创作于1952年的作品,故事有他自己一段隐秘情事的影子,同年即在英美两国相继上演,此后多次重排,并且被翻拍成影视剧作品,著名版本包括1955年费雯•丽主演的电影版,2011年蕾切尔•薇兹、汤姆•希德勒斯顿和西蒙•拉塞尔•比尔主演的电影版,及1994年科林•费尔斯的电视版,其经典程度可见一斑。
海伦•麦克洛瑞(Helen McCrory)在《美狄亚》和The Last of the Haussmans之后再度回归英国国家剧院!再度与导演凯莉•克拉克奈尔(Carrie Cracknell)导演复排的经典剧目《蔚蓝深海》。
The Deep Blue Sea begins with the discovery by her neighbours of Hester Collyer who has tried and failed to commit suicide. Some time before, she left her husband, a respectable High Court Judge, for a semi-alcoholic former R.A.F. pilot, 'Freddy Page'. The relationship was physical and passionate but his ardour has cooled, leaving her emotionally stranded and desperate. The aftershocks of her attempted suicide unravel even the remnants of this relationship, but by the end she is brought to a hard decision to live, partly through the intercession of another resident of the tenement house, Mr. Miller, an ex-doctor, struck off for what seems to have been a homosexual offence. These two outcasts, socially ostracised for their 'excessive' loves, find a curious and moving kinship.
该剧为英国舞台剧作家泰伦斯•拉提根(Terence Rattigan)创作于1952年的作品,故事有他自己一段隐秘情事的影子,同年即在英美两国相继上演,此后多次重排,并且被翻拍成影视剧作品,著名版本包括1955年费雯•丽主演的电影版,2011年蕾切尔•薇兹、汤姆•希德勒斯顿和西蒙•拉塞尔•比尔主演的电影版,及1994年科林•费尔斯的电视版,其经典程度可见一斑。
海伦•麦克洛瑞(Helen McCrory)在《美狄亚》和The Last of the Haussmans之后再度回归英国国家剧院!再度与导演凯莉•克拉克奈尔(Carrie Cracknell)导演复排的经典剧目《蔚蓝深海》。
The Deep Blue Sea begins with the discovery by her neighbours of Hester Collyer who has tried and failed to commit suicide. Some time before, she left her husband, a respectable High Court Judge, for a semi-alcoholic former R.A.F. pilot, 'Freddy Page'. The relationship was physical and passionate but his ardour has cooled, leaving her emotionally stranded and desperate. The aftershocks of her attempted suicide unravel even the remnants of this relationship, but by the end she is brought to a hard decision to live, partly through the intercession of another resident of the tenement house, Mr. Miller, an ex-doctor, struck off for what seems to have been a homosexual offence. These two outcasts, socially ostracised for their 'excessive' loves, find a curious and moving kinship.
麦克白 Peter Glanville版 [演出] 豆瓣
所属 演出: 麦克白
语言:
英语 english
剧团:
Little Angel Theatre
剧院:
Little Angel Theatre
导演:
Peter Glanville
其它标题:
Peter Glanville版
编剧:
莎士比亚 William Shakespeare
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Peter Glanville
演员:
Claire Harvey
/
Lori Hopkins
…
《麦克白》故事发生在处于战乱连年的遥远苏格兰。3个命运女巫的出现,道出了改变命运的预言。麦克白和班柯,两员英勇无畏的大将在战斗中力挽狂澜。国王邓肯将叛变的考顿爵士的封号和领地转封给麦克白,将王位传给了长子马尔康。麦克白和夫人合谋杀害了邓肯国王。因为惧怕班柯泄露命运女巫的预言,也杀害了班柯。女巫们提醒他要小心已逃亡到英格兰的麦克德夫。麦克白为求心安,最后还是杀害了麦克德夫的妻儿。马尔康和麦克德夫从英格兰请到了援军,直逼麦克白所在的城堡。3个命运女巫的预言原是一种双关语,麦克德夫最终杀死了麦克白,马尔康得到王位,成为苏格兰的国王。
美狄亚 [演出] 豆瓣
Medea
类型:
舞剧
编剧:
维吉尼·米尔波
/
何塞·格拉内罗
…
其它标题:
Medea
导演:
维吉尼·米尔波
/
何塞·格拉内罗
…
演员:
Helen McCrory
/
Danny Sapani
/
Michaela Coel
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Rena Butler
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Catherine Correa
《美狄亚》是西班牙舞蹈团近几十年来的最佳著作之一,很多编舞家都对这个神话题材有过高水平的诠释,编舞家何塞·格拉内罗、音乐家马诺罗·桑卢卡和服装设计师米格尔·纳罗在1984年创作了这个作品。美狄亚修长的手臂扭转缠绕,在弗拉明戈悲凉深邃的舞姿中,诠释着美丽、欲望与毁灭的永恒主题。
《美狄亚》的创作灵感来自于古希腊神话中“Medea”的形象。美狄亚为了爱情疯狂,她为了爱情毁灭了家庭和自己。其着重表现了美狄亚杀死自己亲生儿子之后的痛苦时刻,她自责又疯狂,她在理智与情感的煎熬中不惜伤害自己。通过舞蹈肢体语言表达内心的痛苦,是该剧的创作重点。
The Last of the Haussmans [演出] 豆瓣
类型:
theater
编剧:
Stephen Beresford
导演:
Howard Davies
演员:
Rory Kinnear
/
Julie Walters
/
Isabella Laughland
/
Helen McCrory
/
Matthew Marsh
…
Julie Walters returns to the National Theatre for the first time in more than a decade in this funny, touching and savage portrait of a family that's losing its grip.
High society drop-out Judy (Julie Walters) is the aging hippy matriarch of the Haussman clan. The spirit of the 1960s still infuses her anarchic lifestyle in a dilapidated Art Deco house on the Devon coast. Recovering from an operation, Judy welcomes her wayward adult children Nick (Rory Kinnear) and Libby (Helen McCrory). Also joining the party are her granddaughter Summer, local doctor Peter, and Daniel - a troubled local teen. Lubricated by alcohol in the sweltering heat over the next few months, infatuations, festering resentments and disappointments bubble to the surface. Stephen Beresford's new play is a blackly comic portrait of the consequences of being raised by the revolutionary 'free love' generation - with a peach of a role for much-loved Julie Walters.
High society drop-out Judy (Julie Walters) is the aging hippy matriarch of the Haussman clan. The spirit of the 1960s still infuses her anarchic lifestyle in a dilapidated Art Deco house on the Devon coast. Recovering from an operation, Judy welcomes her wayward adult children Nick (Rory Kinnear) and Libby (Helen McCrory). Also joining the party are her granddaughter Summer, local doctor Peter, and Daniel - a troubled local teen. Lubricated by alcohol in the sweltering heat over the next few months, infatuations, festering resentments and disappointments bubble to the surface. Stephen Beresford's new play is a blackly comic portrait of the consequences of being raised by the revolutionary 'free love' generation - with a peach of a role for much-loved Julie Walters.
家国危机 (2019) [剧集] TMDB IMDb 维基数据
MotherFatherSon
导演:
Tom Rob Smith
演员:
Sinéad Cusack
/
Helen McCrory
…
其它标题:
MotherFatherSon
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マザー・ファーザー・サン
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极富魅力的美国富一代传媒大亨麦克斯与英国女继承人凯瑟琳离婚后,他们的儿子凯登经营着父亲的报社,还将追随父亲的脚步,登上权力巅峰。不幸的是卡登自毁前程,整个家族企业和处在变革边缘的国家岌岌可危…
低俗怪谈 (2014) [剧集] 维基数据 IMDb TMDB
Penny Dreadful
其它标题:
Penny Dreadful
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英國恐怖故事
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19世纪末,英国伦敦的上空阴云密布。探险家马尔科姆·穆雷爵士与美丽的灵媒温妮莎·艾芙斯四处寻找他的女儿米娜,在与一群不明生物交手的过程中,似乎窥探到来自两千年前古埃及的秘密。天才外科医生维克多·弗兰肯斯坦用尸块创造了科学怪人,他体验到造物主的乐趣时,也被过去的阴影束缚。四处寻回表演的美国落魄公子哥伊森·钱德勒曾因出色的枪法受雇于温妮莎,匪夷所思的经历让他盘桓伦敦,难以逃遁,在此期间他和苦命女子比莉·派佩坠入爱河。这些人因各种原因走到一起,共同面对永世无法摆脱的噩梦……
地平线系列:被黑洞吞噬 (2013) [电影] 豆瓣
Horizon: Swallowed by a Black Hole
导演:
Dan Clifton
演员:
海伦·麦克洛瑞
/
Andy Fabian
…
其它标题:
Horizon: Swallowed by a Black Hole
《地平线系列:被黑洞吞噬》讲述的是借2013年起天文学家观测气体云“喂”银河系中心黑洞的事情科普黑洞知识:银河系中心黑洞的发现、类星体=正在进食的黑洞(以及所以黑洞其实是宇宙中最亮的光源)、黑洞与其所掌控星系质量上的线性关系(0.5%)、因而黑洞主宰了星系的规模,对整个星系的形成当然也包括我们的存在实际上具有建设性作用。
艺人 (1993) [电影] 豆瓣
The Entertainer
导演:
Nicholas Renton
演员:
迈克尔·刚本
/
George Beach
…
其它标题:
The Entertainer
Osborne's portrait of a family on the brink of total breakdown. Set in English coastal resort during the 1950s. Archie Fry, a music-hall comedian, tries to escape life's misery through petty schemes and drinking, while his wife whiles away hours at the cinema.
最后的霍斯曼 (2012) [电影] 豆瓣
The Last of the Haussmans
导演:
Howard Davies
演员:
Julie Walters
/
Helen McCrory
…
其它标题:
The Last of the Haussmans
/
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
Judy Haussman, an elderly hippy, deals with the dysfunctionality of her family, including her children, Nick and Libby, and the baggage they have in tow.
黑衣女人2:死亡天使 (2014) [电影] 豆瓣 IMDb TMDB 维基数据
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
其它标题:
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
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The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
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1941年,第二次世界大战如火如荼。英国伦敦遭到纳粹法西斯的毁灭性轰炸,成千上万的人流离失所,更有无数儿童沦为孤儿。为了躲避战火的蹂躏,陆军军官的妻子海伦·霍格女士(海伦·麦克洛瑞 Helen McCrory 饰)与伊芙·帕金斯(菲比·福克斯 Phoebe Fox 饰)带着孤儿们登上列车,辗转来到一处偏远所在避难。经过长途跋涉,她们抵达目的地并被安排在临时的占时军队医院落脚。只不过它的前身这里正是那个黑衣女人横行盘桓的Eel Marsh House。才脱狼穴,又入虎口,惊慌失措的女人和孩子们即将迎来比战争更为可怕的噩梦,恶灵的杀戮有序展开……
本片根据英国小说家苏珊·希尔(Susan Hill)的畅销小说改编。
本片根据英国小说家苏珊·希尔(Susan Hill)的畅销小说改编。
Split Second (1999) [电影] 豆瓣
导演:
David Blair
演员:
克里夫·欧文
/
海伦·麦克洛瑞
…
地平线系列:烹饪造就人类吗 (2010) [电影] 豆瓣
Horizon: Did Cooking Make Us Human
导演:
Clare Kingston
演员:
Helen McCrory
其它标题:
Horizon: Did Cooking Make Us Human
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Did the discovery of cooking make us human?
本部纪录片是BBC地平线系列推出的一档,以探讨烹饪对人类进化演变起到何种影响为命题的纪录片。烹饪对于人类进化的影响之大,可能超乎所有人的想象。作为地球上唯一懂得烹调食物的物种,到底是聪明才智让我们学会此项本领,还是我们仅仅是继承了祖先的成果呢?此刻我们的盘中餐,就是我们和祖先最直接的联系。没有它们,人类就不可能进化为优势物种。
本期纪录片就是从奠定人类发展史的肉食开始,追溯到我们的祖先是如何改变他们的饮食结构,并掌握用火烹调食物的。在漫长岁月中的演变和进化,使得解剖学和神经学得到了飞跃性的进步。烹饪,这对于人类进化起到举足轻重作用的技能,让我们从远古的树林走进当今现代的厨房。
本期纪录片就是从奠定人类发展史的肉食开始,追溯到我们的祖先是如何改变他们的饮食结构,并掌握用火烹调食物的。在漫长岁月中的演变和进化,使得解剖学和神经学得到了飞跃性的进步。烹饪,这对于人类进化起到举足轻重作用的技能,让我们从远古的树林走进当今现代的厨房。
脆弱的心 (1996) [电影] 豆瓣
The Fragile Heart
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The Fragile Heart
The Fragile Heart是一部医疗题材的英国迷你剧,共3集。这部剧由Paula Milne制作,在1996年11月4日至20日期间播出,并获得了英国皇家电视学会最佳电视剧奖项的提名。主演Sir Nigel因为在该剧中的精彩表演第六次拿下了英国BAFTA最佳表演奖。
剧中的Edgar Pascoe(奈杰尔·霍桑饰)是一位非常成功且富有魅力的心脏外科医生。他是一个在自己的领域中出类拔萃的人,也是医学界高层的化身:文雅且对自己的能力极度自信。但他并非永远不会犯错——无论是在手术室还是在与家庭的私生活中。
Edgar的妻子Lileth是一位敬业、富有同情心的乡村医生。她越来越被东方的整体性治疗艺术所吸引,但却遭到了西方技术供应商的蔑视。当她与丈夫的职业理想与信念发生冲突时,他们之间的关系也不可避免地会产生矛盾。Nicola是Edgar最宠爱的孩子,她冷酷无情、毫无顾忌,一心想要赶上她杰出的父亲。
不久后Edgar率领一个医疗代表团来到了中国,却因人权问题陷入道德困境,被迫在内心的痛苦与煎熬中觉醒。这一系列事情将深刻影响他的生活。
剧中的Edgar Pascoe(奈杰尔·霍桑饰)是一位非常成功且富有魅力的心脏外科医生。他是一个在自己的领域中出类拔萃的人,也是医学界高层的化身:文雅且对自己的能力极度自信。但他并非永远不会犯错——无论是在手术室还是在与家庭的私生活中。
Edgar的妻子Lileth是一位敬业、富有同情心的乡村医生。她越来越被东方的整体性治疗艺术所吸引,但却遭到了西方技术供应商的蔑视。当她与丈夫的职业理想与信念发生冲突时,他们之间的关系也不可避免地会产生矛盾。Nicola是Edgar最宠爱的孩子,她冷酷无情、毫无顾忌,一心想要赶上她杰出的父亲。
不久后Edgar率领一个医疗代表团来到了中国,却因人权问题陷入道德困境,被迫在内心的痛苦与煎熬中觉醒。这一系列事情将深刻影响他的生活。
The Jury (陪审团 第一季) (2002) [剧集] 豆瓣
The Jury Season 1 所属 电视剧集: The Jury
The killing of a 15-year-old-boy rocks the nation, as a Sikh classmate of the boy is charged with the murder. The trial, which is engulfed in protests and media speculation, brings together 12 jurors who find themselves having to make a decision that the entire country is waiting for.
The jurors include: Charles, a young man who has left the seminary to search for his lost love; Elsie, an old lonely woman who is dying; Johnny, a recovering alcoholic; Rose, a beautiful woman whose husband is paranoid in the aftermath of a car accident; Jeremy, a once-wealthy family man who lost all his money when conned by a friend in a bad investment; Peter, who wants to be a good and impartial juror at the trial but is besieged by his wife's parents, who want to get involved; and Marcia, a single mother who is forced to let her mother back into her life during the trial.
The victim, John Maher, was stabbed twenty-eight times on his way to school one morning. His classmate, Duvinder Singh, is accused.
The jurors include: Charles, a young man who has left the seminary to search for his lost love; Elsie, an old lonely woman who is dying; Johnny, a recovering alcoholic; Rose, a beautiful woman whose husband is paranoid in the aftermath of a car accident; Jeremy, a once-wealthy family man who lost all his money when conned by a friend in a bad investment; Peter, who wants to be a good and impartial juror at the trial but is besieged by his wife's parents, who want to get involved; and Marcia, a single mother who is forced to let her mother back into her life during the trial.
The victim, John Maher, was stabbed twenty-eight times on his way to school one morning. His classmate, Duvinder Singh, is accused.