那是一个平凡的黄昏，鬼马精灵的高中女孩多惠子（忽那汐里 饰）追上她所喜欢的男孩由纪夫（冈田将生 饰），结果发现对方竟然有四个父亲！由纪夫的妈妈当年脚踏四条船，分别是博学多闻的大学教授悟（佐野史郎 饰）、四肢发达的体育老师勋（宫川大辅 饰）、善于安慰女性的前牛郎葵（村上淳 饰）和烂赌成性的无业游民鹰（河原雅彦 饰），每个人都不愿和由纪夫的妈妈分开，所以最终变成了奇怪的一家人。四个爸爸，四倍的乐趣和吵闹。由纪夫从他们那里得到无微不至关怀和足以受用终生的处世哲学。正值知事选举热战正酣之际，由纪夫意外卷入危险事件中。而四个爸爸为了救出宝贝儿子，齐心协力，各逞所能…… 本片根据伊坂幸太郎的同名原作改编。
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
本片基于艾米·利普罗特所著回忆录，她和芬沙伊德改编剧本，讲述刚从康复中心出来的罗娜在离开十多年后，回到了苏格兰的奥克尼群岛，回到童年时的牧羊场，再度体会到了自然之美和静谧的珍贵。
改编自D. Eric Maikranz所著小说《转世文献》(The Rein carnationist Papers)，聚焦一个被自己前两世的记忆缠绕的男子，引出一群几乎长生不死、几世纪来多次转生的人，被称为“无限/无穷之人”，他们的组织叫“Cognomina”。为了打败想毁灭地球的邪恶力量，他们必须依靠这个精神分裂的男子，而后者先要搞清楚：他常做的奇怪的梦都是前世的记忆。
