对于家庭主妇克莱尔(米歇尔·菲佛 Michelle Pfeiffer 饰)来说,家对她而言早已经不是温馨和安全的所在了。原来,最近家中发生了一些她无法解释的事情,亦出现了一些让她感到恐惧的影像,而当她向丈夫诺曼(哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰)发出求助信号的时候,诺曼并不相信妻子所说的那些听上去无比荒唐的话语。
发生的更多怪事让克莱尔坚信,有一个幽灵侵入了她平静正常的生活,而那个神出鬼没的幽灵似乎有求于克莱尔。随着时间的流逝,幽灵的真实身份渐渐浮出水面,而让克莱尔吃惊的是,这个幽灵竟和自己的丈夫诺曼有着丝丝缕缕的联系。幽灵究竟想要怎样?丈夫是否如表面上看上去的那样清白?透过心中的迷雾,克莱尔似乎明白了什么。
George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle. The film's title is a metaphor for self-promoting tycoons who perform quick financial takeovers, impose dictatorial controls for short-term profits, then move on to greener pastures. The Carpetbaggers is the kind of trashy classic most people were too embarrassed to admit they enjoyed back in the early 60s. But this Harold Robbins adaptation is so cheerfully vulgar, it's hard not to have a good time - especially given the thinly veiled portrait of Howard Hughes at its center. George Peppard plays the heel-hero, who founds an airline company in the 1920s and buys a movie studio in the 1930s, crushing friends and mistresses along the way. The high cheese factor is aided by the good-time cast Carroll Baker as Peppard's hot stepmom, Bob Cummings (quite funny) as a cynical agent, and Elizabeth Ashley, who married Peppard, in her debut -uncharacteristically, as a good girl. One sad note is Alan Ladd, looking and sounding very end-of-the-line in his final role, as a man's man cowboy star. Elmer Bernstein's swaggering score helps goose the action along.
The memories of the title are the recollections of a young woman’s older sister that killed herself mysteriously. The subtle traces of abstractness that inform the film show signs of experimentation by the film’s rookie director, full of dramatic careers in her middle-50s making her feature debut.