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.

　　单亲家庭长大的Jamie（Glen Berry）因为不爱运动，在学校显得很不合群，上学成为他最头疼的事，而随着年龄的增长，他同母亲的交流也有了障碍，尤其在母亲交了个莽撞憨直的男友后，他更不知如何与母亲相处。他的邻居，英俊的小伙子Ste（Scott Neal）与他相比，也好不到哪儿去，Ste时常遭嗜酒如命的父亲和哥哥拳打脚踢。
　　某天，Ste遭家人殴打后又被扫地出门，Jamie的母亲可怜他把他叫到家里同Jamie一起睡，两个少男第一夜虽没共枕，却对彼此生出异样感觉，而随着同床日子的增多，他们渐渐爱上了对方，但是，麻烦也紧接而来。

　　40岁的艾萨克·戴维斯（伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen 饰）在写作上不算成功，在感情上更是一团糟。一方面，为了另一个女人而离开他的前妻吉尔（梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰）打算出版一本有关他们私密婚姻生活的书，另一方面，17岁的女孩翠西（玛瑞儿·海明 威 Mariel Hemingway 饰）对于这段他并不打算认真经营的感情投入了越来越多的热情。在这个节骨眼上，好友耶尔（迈克尔·莫菲Michael Murphy饰）的情人玛丽（黛安·基顿 Diane Keaton 饰）闯入了戴维斯的视线，风趣的谈吐，投机的话题，一切的一切都为两人的感情擦出了火花。3个男人，3个女人，在曼哈顿这个繁华又孤单的城市，这群成年人究竟该用何种方式来道德并公正的解决他们的感情问题呢？
　　本片荣获1980年英国电影学院最佳影片奖。

　　马修饰演报社的新闻版主编，莱蒙是他手下的王牌记者。这一天莱蒙正要离开芝加哥到纽约去跟他的女友展开新生活，但临时发生了一宗政治丑闻，马修用尽各种方法来挽留莱蒙采访这段新闻。整个情节就在两人的拉扯之间来表现报界中人对突发新闻的停不了的热爱心理，由此延伸了互相勾心斗角、你躲我寻的游戏。

　　喜剧大师彼得·塞勒斯有千面笑匠之誉，能在各种不同类型的影片中扮演各种差异性甚大的角色，本片就是一例。塞勒斯饰演一个意大利骗子，为了寻找一批黄金，假扮电影导演来到意大利的小村镇，一方面游说村民参加拍片，另一方面则假装成各种身份寻找真正的目标。

　　A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of sixteen years leaves her for a younger woman.

　　Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend kill himself because of the on-going affair that Clay was having with the man's wife. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay befriends a troubling serial killer.

　　汤姆（弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰）是一名内心怀揣着远大理想的剧作家，而乔治（加里·库柏 Gary Cooper 饰）则是一位名不见经传的小小画家，两人同为文艺界人士，在巴黎合租了一幢公寓。一次偶然中，汤姆和乔治邂逅了名为吉尔达（米利亚姆·霍普金斯 Miriam Hopkins 饰）的女子，两人同时被吉尔达与众不同的魅力所深深吸引，坠入了情网。
　　然而，夹在这两个男人之间的吉尔达无法做出选择，于是想出了一个注意，那就是住进汤姆和乔治家中，督促他们创作作品，就这样，一段奇怪的三角关系形成了。为了创作一部话剧，汤姆需要返回伦敦待一阵子，他十分担心在他不在的这段时间里，乔治和吉尔达之间会擦出火花。

　　罗丽拉（玛丽莲·梦露 Marilyn Monroe 饰）和桃乐西（简·拉塞尔 Jane Russell 饰）是舞台上的好搭档，生活中的好伙伴。艳光四射的两人走在一起，吸引了无数男人的目光，然而，她们并非空有一副好皮囊，论智商，罗丽拉和桃乐西可不输给任何人。
　　某日，罗丽拉登上了驶往法国的轮船，前去和情人艾仕文（埃利奥特·里德 Elliott Reid 饰）结婚，在船上，两人遇见了一名为古斯（托米·努南 Tommy Noonan 饰）的男子。原来，古斯是艾仕文父亲派来的私家侦探，为的是考验罗丽拉对自己儿子的真心。随着时间的推移，桃乐西竟然慢慢爱上了善良的古斯，但罗丽拉很显然帮自己的好闺蜜相中了另一位“金龟婿”。

　　杰夫·丹尼尔斯在片中饰演个性保守的雅痞行政人员，偶然到餐厅吃午饭，碰到狂野女郎梅拉尼·格里菲思。她把他带到汽车旅馆展开激情游戏，令他大感意外。然而接下来的一段放荡不羁的刺激遭遇，更是令他惊喜交集，整个改变了他的人生。

　　消失数月的王牌女记者希尔迪·约翰逊（罗莎琳德·拉塞尔 Rosalind Russell 饰）来到上司沃尔特·伯恩斯（加里·格兰特 Cary Grant 饰）办公室桌前，打算辞职去结婚。沃尔特当然不希望这样的事情发生，而更重要的是两人曾经是生活在一起的夫妻。在沃尔特眼中， 希尔迪是最得力的记者搭档，而希尔迪却更多期待着平静的婚姻生活。虽然两人已经离婚，但沃尔特仍然深爱着希尔迪。
　　一桩引发纽约城全程轰动的死囚越狱事件，让两人又开始了密切接触。最先抢到头条消息的希尔迪，在沃尔特的劝说下，决定与他合作完成最后一个报道。而不曾想的是，在种种意外情况的发生后，希尔迪渐渐发现自己已经无法离开沃尔特。

　　一部以十九世纪为背景的古装剧，处境是豪华的歌剧院，主角是一对歌剧作曲及作词排挡。上半部是两人的斗气斗戏，下半段则讲作曲家受日本文化感染而编出经典剧目《THE MIKADO》。影片多幕戏中台上戏，令人叹为观止。

　　A quick glimpse at the cast for this film would make any horror fan giddy with glee. The actual movie doesn't live up to those high expectations, but it's far from being all bad. Desi Arnaz Jr. (!) plays an author who makes a crazy $20,000 bet with his publisher that he could write a great novel in only 24 hours. To do so, the publisher gives him the keys to an old abandoned house where he won't be disturbed. Not true. Once he gets there he is interrupted by a multitude of guests including a family which consists of John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. They are gathered there in a twisted family reunion to release their brother from the room he's been imprisoned in for forty years. Even Christopher Lee drops by as Corrigan, the man who has just purchased the house. Soon, they realize that the caged brother is loose and out for revenge.
　　What a great plotline and what a dream cast! This movie should have been a hell of a lot better. It's hard to pinpoint the exact problems with the film, but I would venture to say that the lack of lighting was a major fault. Sure the house has no electricity but I think they took the title of the movie a little too literally. Scenes after scenes are barely visible and the actors' faces are undecipherable. Only the moments in the main dinning hall are well lit. Also, the great actors are given very little to do. Cushing gets a few chuckles as the scared brother but Price, Lee and especially Carradine are somewhat wasted here. Well, at least Price gets the best line of the film: `Please don't interrupt me while I am soliloquizing.' And on the plus side, the story has enough twists and turns throughout to keep one`s interest and the ending, while a bit of a cop-out, manages to surprise.

　　故事发生在一座位于俄亥俄州中的小镇之内，丹琪（薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰）是出生在这里的一位非常叛逆的少女，丹琪的父母很早就离开了她，她由养父母一手拉扯长大。某日，好莱坞大明星洛克西（卡拉·古奇诺 Carla Gugino 饰）将要衣锦还乡的消息传遍了小镇上下，洛克西就是从这个小镇里走出去的，全镇的人都等待着想要一睹这位大明星的风采。
　　对于丹琪来说，洛克西的回归还有着另外的一层重要意义，她一直怀疑自己是她的私生女。丹琪四处打听，想要得到确切的证据，然而她的养父母对此并不知情，洛克西曾经的情人丹顿（杰夫·丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels 饰）对这件事也三缄其口。丹琪决定离家出走，在半途上拦截洛克西，问个清楚。

　　范尼（芭芭拉·史翠珊 Barbra Streisand 饰）是出生在社会底层的贫穷少女，困顿的生活并没有磨灭她向往自由的意志，无论活得多么卑微和艰难，她都坚信自己有一天能够飞上枝头变凤凰。一直以来，范尼都不懈的磨炼着技艺，希望有人能够看到她的闪光点。
　　终于，歌舞大王齐格飞（沃尔特·皮金 Walter Pidgeon 饰）在范尼的身上看到了她成为巨星的潜质，在齐格飞的挖掘和培养之下，范尼终于实现了梦想，成为了闪耀的巨星。然而，事业的成功却并没有给她带来满足，感情上的不顺始终困扰着她，最终化为了她的心结。即便是最为光辉闪耀的日子里，范尼也依然被痛苦和绝望所缠绕。

　　When William Gridley arrives from the US in London, he rents part of Carly Hardwicke's house from her and promptly begins to fall in love. Gridley doesn't know that many people think she killed her husband but his boss, the American ambassador, knows and doesn't take this "lapse of judgement" lightly. Since Carly is also American, Gridley saves his job by introducing her to the ambassador, who is promptly smitten and promises to help her. So when a Scotland Yard detective arrives, wanting to get to the truth one way or another, they say they'll help him. And then the comedic complications really begin.

　　1962年，Curt Henderson(理查德·德莱弗斯 Richard Dreyfuss 饰）、Steve Bolander（朗·霍华德 Ron Howard 饰）、John Milner（保罗·勒马特 Paul Le Mat 饰）还有Terry "The Toad" Fields（查尔斯·马丁·史密斯 Charles Martin Smith 饰）四个普通的青年在晚上相聚，为即将去外地读大学的Curt和Steve送别。Steve把他的汽车借给了Toad，Toad需要这辆车去寻找他的爱情。Curt开车在马路上，听到一个金发女郎对他说“I love you！”，他急切想找到这个女人，却在路上让另一个女孩上了他的汽车。而Steve也在忙着处理和女友Laurie（辛迪·威廉姆斯 Cindy Williams饰）的关系。John 则准备和另一个人赛车。Toad则认识了另一个美女Debbie（坎迪·克拉克 Candy Clark 饰），两人把车开到了郊外，却意外把车给丢了......在这个夜里，这四个青年的活动为我们展现了六十年代初美国人的精神和生活状态。
　　本片被提名当年奥斯卡最佳影片，最佳导演和最佳女配角等几个奖项。