Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。动漫画家陆仔沉迷创作,忽略了女友。某日,他接到出版社的面试电话,欣然前往。他吃饭时,遇到同桌客人冲突,逃之夭夭。此后,又遇到赛车的司机动手。好不容易赶到了面试地点,他跟冷淡的编辑讲述了自己创作的故事:一个保险经纪约见客户时意外发现妹夫出轨,但碍于妹妹,并未说破。吃团圆饭的时候,男友的因故迟到引发了一场家庭大战。但是故事并不受欢迎。更惨的是无奈的陆仔街头遇险,报警求助,却意外邂逅了女生方美芳。其后,他参加昔日老友玲玲的婚礼,却碰见新郎的旧爱Marietta。他被动漫公司老板叫来陪酒,再次遇到方美芳,并悉心劝慰……。香港寸土寸金,一些底层民众无楼可住,只得栖聚于危楼屋舍之中的床位。这些老弱病残分别用铁丝网相互隔开,被称为笼民。其中,祖先生的智障儿子终日嬉戏耍闹。唐三是占小便宜的货色,而且尖牙利齿嘴不饶人。老人在笼中度过百岁寿辰,一直贩卖杂货维持生计,还有算命先生整天念念有词于事无补。此地发生命案,警察前来调查,却始终无法改变困境。这时,古惑仔毛仔从狱中放出,无视CID老爸的责骂,而与昔日死党重新混在一起,并住进了笼中。这时,公寓管理人员说接到业主收回楼宇的信函,希望各位租住户可以搬出,引起群情激愤。笼民开始向正在竞选的徐、周两位议员申诉,而后者为了收买人心,都作出了体察民情的样子。暗地里,徐议员与业主勾结,用重金收买毛仔,骗得了笼民自愿搬出的签名……。