精力充沛、自由奔放的年轻人瑞奇（迈克尔·安格拉诺 饰）和已经适应了家庭生活的老友格伦（迈克尔·塞拉 饰）踏上一场即兴公路行，从洛杉矶到萨克拉门托的旅途中，他们的过去成为焦点，也引发对未来的质疑。
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.
故事发生在地广人稀的南方工业小镇中，闭塞的环境和苍白的日常让生活在那里的年轻人们脑袋里充满了奇思妙想。保罗（保罗·施耐德 Paul Schneider 饰）是小镇上出了名的花花公子，时至今日，你已经很难在当地找到一个没有和他发生过关系的女孩子了，不过，这些女孩子中并不包括诺瓦（佐伊·丹斯切尔 Zooey Deschanel 饰）。 纯洁的诺瓦理所当然地吸引了保罗的注意，未经人事的她亦很快就坠入了保罗一手制造的温柔乡之中无法自拔。尽管所有人都不看好这段荒唐的感情，但身陷其中的保罗和诺瓦两人依然坚信，他们的未来是光明而又美好的。然而，随着时间的推移，一些棘手的问题开始露出了端倪。
