1979 film directed by Tobe Hooper

在他的成名作《生日晚会》里，品特以卡夫卡式的方法，描述一个人莫名其妙地受到两个陌生人的诱骗和威胁，他试图逃跑，但还是被跟踪；剧中的荒诞性从隐喻一下子跳跃到了具体，好像任何人在任何地方都得不到安全。正如哈罗得·霍布森所说：“虽然你到了地球最远的地方，在最不受人注意的小镇藏在最隐蔽的住处，但终有一天可能出现两个陌生人。他们在找你，你无论如何是逃不掉的。而某个人也在寻找他们。到处都充满了恐怖。”因此，品特的剧作充满了政治的寓意，表现了对社会现实的焦虑。

An evening of TV programming is interrupted by breaking news: in Charleston, South Carolina, two Coast Guard personnel and two members of a local news team have been taken hostage by a group of terrorists who are seeking to destroy the triggers of all local nuclear devices. Moreover, the terrorists threaten to detonate their own device if their demands are not met.

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour drama with all of the political figures of the day parading by as Dean relates his story to his attorney when his world, based on blind ambition, begins crashing down on him.

Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and writing a column that will hopefully help those at home better understand the War. While she's there her life is changed profoundly, and she finds new love and hope in the midst of death and destruction.