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.。曲叶放火欲杀曲氏一家三口,第二天新闻发布会上,曲叶整容成曲舟的样子,面对媒体记者痛苦悼念,曲舟此时已经被白山救出,在医院中看着电视机上的曲叶,冷笑:整容成我的样子,你不会以为我是曲氏的继承人吧?。主角家全(黄日华饰)及行(郭耀明饰)分别为不同环境长大之大时代青年,全为人粗直,常惹是非,且有一对儿女,是时下早婚爸爸的写照,而力行则是个前途一片光明的建筑工程师,但命运之神的作弄,两人因犯错而入狱,经过在狱中的相互扶持,从此上天将他们的命运紧紧连结在一起。行和妻子婉仪(余诗曼)因处逆境而生嫌隙,走上分居之路,而全则与芷珊(陈法蓉)产生了微妙的友谊。 在逆境中求生存的全,有志难伸的行,及善良婉柔的仪和乐观的珊,他们在逆境中求生存,感觉就像是你我故事的浓缩,故事尾声,行又恢复了工程师的本业,全也在报业上找到了目标,正当一切都值得庆祝之际,婉仪的哥哥和弟弟竟然为了赚钱不断使用卑劣手段,在工地偷工减料。 行为了阻止悲剧的发生请求全协助入沙井找出底面层水泥的厚度是否合宜,却遭仪的哥哥,弟弟陷害,一切陷入危机中,幸得众兄弟之支持与鼓励,掉入了沙井的全和行得以....。