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1、牛仔褲的夏天 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The first book was made into a movie in 2005, starring Alexis Bledel as Lena, Amber Tamblyn as Tibby, America Ferrera as Carmen, and Blake Lively as Bridget. It drastically altered the plotline following Lena and made her story the exact opposite of the book, omitting the presence of her sister, Effie, on her trip to Greece, and changing the development of her relationship with Kostos. It does, however, stay quite close to the stories of Carmen, Bridget and Tibby.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, the sequel to the original movie, was released on August 6, 2008. It mostly follows the fourth book, but also includes Bridget visiting her grandmother, as in the second book, Lena attending her Bapi's funeral, also from the second book, and Carmen's mother giving birth to a boy, from the storyline of the third book. It veers quite dramatically from the books, most likely due to the pressure of compressing three books into one movie. The movie and books are for teenage girls and gives tips, advice and quotes from famous people at the end of every chapter.
寫在牛仔褲上的女孩兒的情誼，婉轉動聽，異常溫暖。
也許是上帝的安排，卡門、堤比、蓮娜和布莉姬這四個女孩的緣分是在她們都在娘胎里就注定的。同在夏末出生的她們性格迥異卻從小親如姐妹。十六歲這年夏天，四姐妹第一次面對分離，各自渡過一個沒有對方的夏天。意外的，她們發現了一條牛仔褲，身材相差很大的四姐妹穿上居然都很合適。于是，神奇的牛仔褲變成了友情的信物，伴隨她們開始各自的旅程。
大膽而無拘束的布莉姬（布雷克•萊伍麗 飾）來到了炎熱的墨西哥，加入足球訓練營；漂亮羞澀的蓮娜(艾麗克西斯•布萊德爾 飾)前往圣潔的希臘，用畫筆勾勒愛琴海的神秘；沖動敏感的卡門盼望與在她兒時就搬走的父親共度美好的暑假，而叛逆另類的堤比(安貝•坦布琳 飾)也為錄制她自己的電視節目而忙碌著。牛仔褲承載著友誼與勇氣在她們之間傳遞，陪伴她們，學著去愛，學著長大。
2、姐姐的守護者 My Sister's Keeper
Conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was brought into the world to be a genetic match for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, in order to keep her alive. Her family members are introduced one by one and each tells about how Kate's illness has affected them personally. When Kate turns 15, she goes into renal failure. Eleven-year-old Anna knows that she will be forced by her parents to donate one of her kidneys. She also realizes that she may not be able to live the life she will want to lead - she may be unable to cheer-lead, play soccer, or be a mother. Anna tells her parents that she does not want any of this, and proceeds to sue them for medical emancipation and the rights to her own body. Her extremely overprotective mother, Sara (Cameron Diaz), who leads an obsessive campaign to keep Kate alive, is indignant at Anna's decision and even strikes her across the face when she receives the notice of court proceedings. Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) agrees to work for Anna as her guardian ad litem, suing for partial termination of parental rights. It is later learned he agreed to take the case not for the notoriety, but because he has epilepsy and understands her predicament of not having control over her own body.
為了讓罹患血癌的凱特（蘇菲亞•威希涅瓦 Sofia Vassilieva 飾）能夠活下去，父母通過基因技術“制造”了與凱特的基因完美配型的小女兒——安娜（阿比吉爾•布萊斯林 Abigail Breslin 飾）。安娜感覺自己只是姐姐凱特的“藥罐子”，11年來，凡是在凱特有需要的時候，無論是臍帶血還是白血球、肝細胞、骨髓，她都得源源不斷的向凱特提供。然而，即使有孤注一擲的媽媽（卡梅隆•迪亞茨 Cameron Diaz 飾）、無可奈何的爸爸，以及身邊所有人的愛，凱特的情況還是越來越糟，腎功能的衰竭必須要年僅11歲的安娜捐獻出自己的一個腎。這一次，安娜選擇了拒絕，并且尋找到律師坎貝爾把母親告上法庭，她要捍衛自己的身體。然而，法庭上哥哥杰西卻吐露了另一番真相……
3、雨人 Rain Man
Rain Man is an Oscarwinning 1988 drama film written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass and directed by Barry Levinson. It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware.
Charlie finally meets with his attorney to try to get his share of his inheritance, but then decides that he no longer cares about the money and really just wants to have custody of his brother. However, at a meeting with a court-appointed psychiatrist and Dr. Bruner, who is also a friend of Charlie's father and is left in charge of that money, Raymond is unable to decide exactly what he wants. Eventually, the psychiatrist presses Raymond to make the decision, upsetting him and leading Charlie to request that the doctor back off. Raymond is allowed to go back home to Cincinnati. Charlie, who has gained a new brother and mellowed considerably, promises Raymond as he boards an Amtrak train that he will visit in two weeks.
查理（湯姆•克魯斯 Tom Cruise 飾）父親去世，留下了300萬美元的遺產。然而令他意外的是，遺產全部給了一個他不認識的哥哥雷蒙（達斯汀•霍夫曼 Dustin Hoffman 飾）。雷蒙的名字查理從沒聽過，這個事件讓他氣憤不已。他決定前去尋找哥哥。誰知雷蒙的住處就在一個精神病院里，原來他自幼患有自閉癥，母親去世后就被送到精神病院治療。查理心中有了計算，他把雷蒙帶出精神病院，企圖騙他出讓遺產。
雷蒙的生活習慣奇異，活在自己的幻想世界里，有很多離奇古怪的行為。并且，查理在共處中發現了雷蒙驚人的記憶能力，他試著利用哥哥過目不忘的本領去賭場上試一下身手，贏得了一大筆獎金，使查理足以擺脫窮困生活。而令查理收獲更大的是，他還獲得了慢慢升溫的親情，這種手足情遠遠勝過了他原先圖謀的300萬的遺產。
