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親情、友情、愛情：人類永恒的主題
親情篇:1、天倫之旅 Everybody's Fine
Frank Goode (Robert De Niro), a recently widowed retiree, is getting ready for his children, David (Austin Lysy), Rosie (Drew Barrymore), Amy (Kate Beckinsale) and Robert (Sam Rockwell) to come visit him. One by one though, each of his children call to cancel on him at the last minute. Feeling a bit down by the rejections, Frank decides to head out on a crosscountry trip, visiting each of his kids, despite warnings against travel from his doctor. He is chronically ill with cardiac and respiratory problems from his life work making PVC-covered power lines. He deceives his children about his health, telling them that he is fine.
As Frank travels to each of his children's homes, beginning with his son David who’s absent from his New York apartment. His other son and daughters side-step his surprise visits and make excuses for not having him stay long. He begins to suspect that something is amiss.
年邁的弗蘭克（羅伯特•德尼羅 Rovert De Niro 飾）曾是給電線涂保護層的工人，他的工作保護了電線不受外界的侵蝕。對于自己的四個孩子，弗蘭克同樣是百般呵護，可是在妻子去世的8個月時間里，他發覺自己和孩子們的距離越來越遠。弗蘭克不顧醫生的告戒，獨自踏上了拜訪四個孩子的旅程。然而，在弗蘭克的心目中應該成為畫家的小兒子不知所蹤，大女兒Amy（凱特•貝金賽爾 Kate Beckinsale 飾）的婚姻生活似乎并沒有表面上那樣幸福，本以為會是樂隊指揮的兒子Robert（山姆•洛克威爾 Sam Rockwell 飾）其實只是個鼓手，而從小就喜歡跳舞的女兒Rosie（德魯•巴里摩爾 Drew Barrymore 飾）似乎同樣對父親有所隱瞞。就這樣，老弗蘭克帶著滿腹的猜疑踏上歸途。途中由于心臟病弗蘭克住進醫院，孩子們終于齊聚弗蘭克的醫床前，可是小兒子卻依舊沒有出現……
2、當幸福來敲門 The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film based on Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle with homelessness.
In 1981 San Francisco, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his family's savings in portable bone-density scanners which he tries to demonstrate and sell to doctors. The investment proves to be a white elephant, which financially breaks the family and as a result, his wife Linda (Thandie Newton) leaves him and moves to New York. Their son Christopher (Jaden Smith) remains with his father. While downtown trying to sell one of his scanners, Chris meets Jay Twistle (Brian Howe), a manager for Dean Witter and impresses him by solving a Rubik's Cube during a short cab ride. Chris does not have enough money for the cab fare and flees into a subway station where he barely escapes the cab driver but loses one of his bone scanners in the process. This new relationship with Twistle earns him the chance to become an intern stockbroker.
克里斯•加納（威爾•史密斯飾）用盡全部積蓄買下了高科技治療儀，到處向醫院推銷，可是價格高昂，接受的人不多。就算他多努力都無法提供一個良好的生活環境給妻兒，妻子（桑迪•紐頓）最終選擇離開家。從此他帶著兒子克里斯托夫（賈登•史密斯）相依為命。克里斯好不容易爭取回來了一個股票投資公司實習的機會，就算沒有報酬，成功機會只有成功機會只有百分之五，他仍努力奮斗，兒子是他的力量。他看盡白眼，與兒子躲在地鐵站里的公共廁所里，住在教堂的收容所里……
他堅信，幸福明天就會來臨。
3、弱點 The Blind Side
For most of his childhood, 17-year-old Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) has been in foster care with different families, largely because of his mother's drug addiction, throughout Memphis, Tennessee. Every time he is placed in a new home, he runs away. His friend's father, whose couch Mike had been sleeping on, asks Burt Cotton (Ray McKinnon), the coach of Wingate Christian school, to help enroll his son and Mike. Impressed by Mike's size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record.The Blind Side was a box-office success, grossing over $300 million. The film was well-received by critics, who most notably praised Sandra Bullock's performance.
黑人奧赫（昆東•亞倫 Quinton Aaron 飾）自幼父母離異，無家可歸。不過，木訥的他卻因為極強的身體條件和運動天賦，幸運地進入了一家孤兒院。雖然，他科科零分，但是一些細節卻讓他顯得與眾不同。一次排球比賽后，他主動收拾垃圾的行為，引起了陶西一家的注意。于是，陶西太太（桑德拉•布洛克 Sandra Bullock 飾）決定收養奧赫，并把他培養成橄欖球選手。陶西太太讓他感受到了家庭的溫暖。同時，陶西的兒子還幫助奧赫訓練，使他很快地融入了橄欖球隊的生活，不斷激發運動的潛能。終于，在一次比賽中，他因出色的表現嶄露頭角，開始獲得了球探的關注，隨之帶來了一系列的甜蜜和麻煩……
4、我家買了動物園 We Bought a Zoo
Recently widowed Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon), still grieving his loss, starts life over by buying a large house with a zoo in the back. Although reluctant to take on a zoo and all of its animals, he decides to give it a try, delighting his 7-year-old daughter, Rosie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones), but causing his 14-year-old son, Dylan (Colin Ford), to unhappily retreat into his artwork (drawings and paintings which have grown more macabre since the death of his mother). The zoo staff, led by head keeper, Kelly (Scarlett Johansson), help Benjamin to start renovating the zoo. Benjamin soon runs into financial trouble, however, and the workers' morale sinks, fearing the property will be sold. Meanwhile, Dylan befriends a young girl named Lily (Elle Fanning), who has a huge crush on him to which he is completely oblivious. When she tells him that his family might be leaving, he is overjoyed, which hurts her feelings.
Benjamin discovers that his late wife has left him an investment account with instruction to use the money wisely while listening to his heart. While this lifts the zoo workers' morale, Dylan is unhappy about having to stay. He confronts his father, and a heated argument ensues. They reconcile the next morning, and Dylan admits he misses Lily. Benjamin gives his son advice on reconciling with her.
Prior to the zoo's grand opening, the facility passes a very stringent inspection, and Dylan, following his father's advice, confesses to Lily that he loves her and she forgives him.
作家本杰明•密（馬特•達蒙 Matt Damon 飾）生性喜愛冒險，然而半年前的喪妻之痛令他至今無法釋懷，兒子迪倫和小女兒洛希同樣不能適應失去母親的生活，迪倫因偷竊和陰暗的美術創作導致被學校開除，本杰明沒有聽從哥哥鄧肯的建議，拒絕從新的愛情中獲取樂觀心態，也放棄了專欄寫 作，籌劃和兒女換到全新的環境繼續生活。而本杰明的新家居然是一座荒廢的動物園！因為看到了洛希和動物的友好接觸，本杰明決定接收這座還收留著眾多動物的野生動物園，并帶領管理人凱莉（斯嘉麗•約翰遜 Scarlett Johansson 飾）率領的留守團隊重新修葺動物園，希望在夏季開放之前，迎來動物園的再度營業和自己家庭的新生……
