16岁的男孩Craig克雷格(凯尔·吉克瑞斯特 饰)经常会想象自己的死亡,在尝试多种药物皆没有效果后,自己来到精神病院接受治疗。在那里,他和一个自杀了几次却没能死掉的神神叨叨的Bobby鲍比(扎克·加利费安纳基斯 饰)成了朋友,还认识了一个特别的女孩Noelle,当然还有许许多多的“非正常人”。他们几个在医院的生活中,渐渐寻回了生命的意义,尤其是鲍勃·迪伦的歌词“He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying”给了他们巨大的力量,让他们重新拥有勇气去面对生活的压力。最后,出院的克雷格是否能让他原本阴霾密布的生活重见阳光,他又将通过怎样的方式找回轻松充实的生活?
本片改编自Ned Vizzini的同名小说,在布鲁克林的一所大学预科学校和一所医院取景拍摄。
The action of the film takes place in 1943. The title character is a cosmopolitan and incapable of deeper feelings seducer. In Poland, he lost his entire family. Alone - being in the heart of Nazi Germany - he hides his Jewish origins and often eludes death. He works as a waiter in the restaurant of an exclusive hotel and carelessly enjoys all the charms of life surrounded by luxury, beautiful women and friends from all over Europe. However, when the war begins to take a bloody toll on those closest to him, the intricately built world that surrounds him crumbles like a house of cards.
Sam, a brilliant computer hacker seeking a better life, always seems to make the wrong choices, even under the watchful eye of his probation officer, Harry. Now, barred from using the Internet and stuck working fast food with his best friend and fellow hacker, Stanley, Sam poses as a Postal Worker, stealing people's mail to make ends meet. Until one letter changes everything. Written by the beautiful Josie to her dead husband, a Marine killed in Afghanistan, the heart-wrenching missive wakes something in Sam. Desperate to become worthy of such love, he begins following Josie and stealing more letters, until finally finding the courage to introduce himself. As Sam and Josie grow closer, she warms to the possibility of a new life as he's reminded of the values left behind in childhood. But fate shows its hand when Sam's past catches up with him in the form of an aggressive FBI agent and missing Bitcoins. When Josie discovers the truth, she must decide if the betrayal will force her back...
Dan, a photography student who is given an SLR camera to use for his thesis by his professor Aim. However, Dan finds out that it actually is a test of the devil, which he has no way to escape. His only choice is to obey it or fight back.