Morse and Lewis investigate the death of Laura Poindexter, an American tourist who is part of an exclusive tour group visiting Oxford. Missing from her personal effects is her jewelry, including the Wolvercote Tongue which she was going to donate to the Ashmolean Museum. The pathologist determines that she died of natural causes, but Morse feels there's something not quite right. The mystery deepens when Theodore Kemp, the Ashmolean's expert on the Wolvercote Tongue, is found dead and Mrs. Poindexter's husband goes missing.
High school student, Grover Beindorf, and his younger sister, Stacey, have a problem. Their parents, Janet (Curtis) and Ned (Pollak) are going to get a divorce. Desperate, Grover and Stacey lure their parents to the basement, lock it up, and declare their intentions to keep them there until they reconcile. When their friends find out what they have done, everyone agrees that their misbehaving parents deserve the same treatment!
The last time Britain was a major force in world cinema was in the 1960s; a documentary of a few years back on the subject was entitled 'Hollywood UK'. This was the era of the Kitchen Sink, social realism, angry young men; above all, the theatrical. And yet, ironically, the best British films of the decade were made by two Americans, Richard Lester and Joseph Losey, who largely...
19岁的少年赛斯·戴维斯(吉奥瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi饰)一心希望能尽快淘到自己的第一桶金,好让父亲另眼相看。他本打算靠玩非法纸牌起家,却发现此路根本行不通,直到一家名为J.T.马林经纪公司的股票经纪商找上了赛维斯。
在这个号称“锅炉房”的核心办公室里,多少个一夜间成为百万富翁的故事深深诱惑着赛维斯。很快,野心勃勃的赛维斯便以优异的成绩通过了股票经济人认证考试,开始了他的“成功之路”。他把那些永远都没有前途的股票卖给利欲熏心的投资者。赛维斯正以极危险的速度追逐着金钱与利益,靠近着他所谓的功成名就,贪婪而不安。在纽约长岛这个瞬息万变的商业圈里,良心未泯的赛维斯终于开始面对良心的考验。