Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlig...。Two brothers spend the day driving around Los Angeles county looking for the meaning of their lives, or cheap street drugs, depending on who you happen to believe 长途的旅程会可能让陌生人变得熟悉,也可能会让疏远已久的亲人重新建立信任和亲情。在影片《乘客》当中,斯科特和自己的亲兄弟托比因为长时间没有联系而变得关系疏远,这一天是斯科特的生日,他决定开车去接托比共同庆祝。这一路上,他们遭遇到车胎爆胎,艳遇,甚至劫匪抢劫等等一系列事件。在这一段戏剧化的旅程当中,两兄弟共同面对这些突发事件,在惊险和欢笑当中渐渐重拾了久违的亲情。。