故事发生在1692年的马萨诸塞州，人人在一个地处偏远的小镇之中，人人生活着一群虔诚又愚昧的人们。女孩阿比盖尔（薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰）是牧师的侄女，因此在镇上享有很高的声誉，凡是她说的话人们都信，凡是她做的事人们都赞成。凭借着自己的“特权”，阿比盖尔将数十名她看不惯的女子以“女巫”之名送上了绞刑架，这其中就有约翰（丹尼尔·戴-刘易斯 Daniel Day Lewis 饰）的妻子伊莉莎贝斯（琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰）。约翰一直都将阿比盖尔的狼子野心看在眼里，但由于两人之间的情人关系，他只得保持缄默，直到阿比盖尔将魔爪伸向了伊莉莎贝斯，约翰才明白事态的严重性。约翰向法官告发了阿比盖尔的罪行，然而，却没有人相信他的“胡言乱语”。
回复 :本片包含的四个故事是道德力量与死刑这两个关键主题的变奏曲。这就提出了一个问题：在专制政权及其看似不可避免的威胁下，个人自由能在多大程度上得到表达？
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回复 :一位小伙尝试在派对上得到遇见的漂亮女孩的芳心，经过一系列有趣又长久的对话，女孩不断拒绝，但小伙一直没有放弃。故事在两人的周旋与互动中慢慢展开…… 影片将感情关系的亲近与分离阶段通过两个寂寞角色在马德里的喧嚣中度过的深夜与上午简化为不足十二小时的两性权力角逐，用时间对称展开一夜情前后情绪截然不同的两段故事。
回复 :Abandoned by his father at the age of five and raised in near isolation by a loving, yet emotionally unstable and over-protective mother, the only life Peel Munter has ever known is within the confines of his childhood home. Upon his mother's unexpected death, 30-year-old Peel is left lost and utterly alone. With no job, family, or friends, he must make a choice; live as his mother did, lonely and unsettled, or change the course of his impending fate by breaking out into the unknown, facing the trials and tribulations of an outside world he doesn't understand. Unable to make the house payments, Peel decides to take in a couple of drifters as roommates. After forging what seems to be a burgeoning new family and brotherhood, one of the roommates betrays Peel's trust, compelling Peel to venture out in search of his long-lost, real brothers who had been taken away from him decades ago. Along the way, Peel's lack of cynicism and innocence has an inadvertent, yet powerful effect on those he meets, as he brings a group of marginalized misfits closer to their true home.
