When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to rekindle a childhood romance and convince her to move back home, Katherine is torn between the bright lights of the big city and the...

　　爱尔兰渔夫锡拉丘兹（科林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰）从海上捞起了一个神秘的美丽女子，名唤奥丁（艾丽卡·巴赫蕾达 Alicja Bachleda 饰）。锡拉丘兹将不愿见人的奥丁安置在自己母亲的海滨老屋中，意外发现奥丁竟给他的渔船带来了好运。锡拉丘兹的女儿安妮（艾莉森·巴瑞 Alison Barry 饰）患有肾脏衰竭，与酗酒的母亲莫拉（德乌拉·基尔万 Dervla Kirwan 饰）及其男友一起生活。安妮与奥丁结下了坚固的友谊，她相信奥丁是苏格兰神话中的海豹少女，上岸后埋下自己的海豹皮，便可在陆地生活七年，直到自己的海豹丈夫前来带她返回大海深处。锡拉丘兹果然与奥丁彼此相爱，但他对奥丁是真正身份一直半信半疑，直到某个黑发男子的神秘出现，要带走奥丁……
　　本片被提名爱尔兰电影电视协会最佳服装设计、最佳导演、最佳影片及最佳电影剧本奖，并获最佳男主角（科林·法瑞尔）、最佳女配角（德乌拉·基尔万）、最佳布景及最佳声音奖。

汤姆琼斯（阿尔伯特·芬尼 Albert Finney 饰）本为私生子，后被一绅士收养，他天性热情奔放，模样又生得风流俊朗，庄园主的女儿索菲亚（苏珊娜·约克 Susannah York 饰）同他坠入情网，后遭到表弟比菲尔（大卫·沃纳 David Warner 饰）的插足干涉，一番纠葛之后，声名狼藉的汤姆琼斯决定离开家乡，去外面的世界寻找属于自己的天地。 　　汤姆离开后没多久，伤心的索菲亚便也踏上了旅途，两人在缘分的驱使之下在一名女商贩的家中重逢了。之后，比菲尔亦来到了伦敦，想要报复汤姆。在比菲尔的阴谋筹划之下，汤姆被送上了绞刑架，就在即将行刑的生死攸关的时刻，索菲亚的父亲及时赶到，破解了比菲尔的阴谋，挽救了汤姆的性命。

莎莉（桑德拉·布洛克 Sandra Bullock 饰）和吉莉（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）是一对感情十分要好的姐妹，表面上和常人无异的她们，实则出生在一个世世代代研习巫术的魔法家庭。姐妹两人的父母皆已去世，究其原因，要归结于笼罩在整个家族之上的诅咒——家族中女人们若与男人相爱，必将死于非命。 　　多年后，莎莉和吉莉长大成为了充满魅力的女性，尽管被诅咒的阴影所困，但她们的内心里依然充满着对于异性和爱情的憧憬。很快，莎莉就邂逅了她的真命天子，不顾家人的反对，她毅然同他结婚生子。同时，吉莉也陷入了与浪子杰米（高兰·维斯耶克 Goran Visnjic 饰）的情感纠葛中，两姐妹就此失散。当命运的不幸让她们再度聚首之后，她们都已经饱尝了失去爱人的痛苦滋味，内心倔强的二人决定潜心研究魔法，誓要同命运一决高下。

　　It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.
　　Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.
　　When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."
　　Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.
　　Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.