Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded independent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a lyrical story that draws on folklore and the supernatural.
　　family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives to visit his old friends. He exudes an easy charm, knows secret past and present and is soon installed in the heart of the family. However, as his stay lengthens, so does he begin to cast an even more malevolent spell, provoking turmoil, setting son against son, reviving past hatreds, and inflicting a mysterious illness.
　　Glover delivers a career-topping performance as the garrulous  family friend, full of hidden menace, effortlessly evoking nostalgia and horror in the same breath.
　　As ever, Burnett provides a wonderful music track featuring gospel, blues and jazz and a cameo from the legendary Jimmy Weatherspoon.
　　'A slow-burning, soul-insinuating, 12-bar blues of a movie.' Tom Charity, Time Out
　　'Danny Glover is marvellous, and terrifying, as a charismatic old-timer.' The Times
　　(from the description on the back cover of the DVD)

　　白人警探尼克．诺尔蒂为了追查神秘的毒贩"卖冰人"，不得不找当年的黑人罪犯搭档埃迪．墨菲协助提供线索。埃迪因有一笔巨款仍寄存在尼克手上，只好不情不愿地加以帮忙，但二人在合作过程中发生多起冲突。最后，他们还是发现了卖冰人"的真正身份，原来是警察中人。全片从编剧的情节安排，到导演的动作设计，再到演员的卖力演出，处处可见台前幕后工作人员尽力使本片显得热闹好看的努力，不过最终还是摆脱不了既有的框架，只是在公式化之中转圈圈，甚至埃迪的惹笑伎俩也显得有点技穷了。

　　爱丽丝（简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰）的丈夫不幸去世，留下了两个孩子要爱丽丝一手拉扯长大，不仅如此，爱丽丝的妹妹和妹夫都失业了，前来投奔姐姐，一家人的生活重担全都落在了爱丽丝的肩上。一天，爱丽丝在一场意外中邂逅了名为斯坦利（罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰）的男子，斯坦利是工厂里的厨师，但是因为不识字，所以最终遭到了上司的解雇。
　　爱丽丝知道斯坦利是一个非常善良的男人，于是鼓励他学习识字，在此过程中，两人之间的距离慢慢靠近。就在他们终于真情流露之际，斯坦利获得了一个到外地赚大钱的机会，他向爱丽丝允诺，两年后一定会回来找她。

　　巴斯春与父亲巴尼共同生活，父亲因工作繁忙答应过的事往往无法覆行，而游泳课中，又因畏惧高空跳水遭到同学耻笑，某日前往旧书店借书时，发现一本「回到大魔城」书中女主角，女童太后向巴斯春求救，巴斯春勇敢走入大魔域，才知道大魔域正遭受莎拉达女王和她的巨人队威胁，万一大魔域失落，地球上的小朋友将永远没有故事可听了，巴斯春召集了爱弟、法哥，并凭藉爱轮的法力，救出太后，而大魔域的安危……