简介：　　The actors were never told in advance what was in store for their characters. Each new episode was just as much a surprise for them as it was for the viewers.
　　故事的背景设定在公元2257年，人类已经突破光速，开始大规模星际旅行及在太阳系附近殖民，与多个外星文明接触并有贸易联系。一天，一艘地球联邦的星际驱逐舰在探索未知星际空间的时候遇到一艘不明星船，因为误判对方意图而先敌开火。对方叫明巴利外星族（Minbari），比人类早进化发展几千年，其技术人类无法望其项背。不巧的是地球星船孤注一掷先敌开火的时候把灰色議會議長杜哈的给干掉了（那位老兄其实知道按大设计蓝图，明巴利必须与地球人联合并融合，这次到这里也不是闲逛，而是准备与地球人第一次亲密接触）。于是明巴利对地球开战，摧枯拉朽所向披糜，在对地球本土最后一击的过程中，明巴利却突然停止进攻并宣布投降。总之，停战后地球出资在中立空间建设“巴比伦空间站"，致力星际交流、谈判及和平合作。前面四座都被摧毁或莫名其妙消失，于是有了巴比伦5号。巴5军头Sheridan和明巴利大使笛嵐（Delenn）带领众喽罗，联合火星殖民地抵抗力量反对地球联邦通过谋杀政变而上台的独裁总统，联合各外星文明反击神秘黑暗种类——影族（Shadows），向佛隆人（Vorlon）说不，最终走上独立自主自力更生的发展文明道路。

简介：　　At the beginning of 2259, Captain John Sheridan replaces Sinclair as the military governor of the station. He and the command staff learn that the death of President Santiago was actually an assassination masterminded by Vice President Clark (who assumed the Presidency upon Santiago's death). A conflict develops between the Babylon 5 command staff and the Psi Corps, an increasingly autocratic organization which oversees and controls the lives of human telepaths. Commander Ivanova, the second-in-command of the station, is secretly a latent telepath who has illicitly avoided registering with the Psi Corps.
　　The Shadows, an ancient and extremely powerful race who have recently emerged from hibernation, are revealed to be the cause of a variety of mysterious and disturbing events, including the attack on the Narn outpost at the end of 2258. Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari unknowingly enlists their aid through his association with the mysterious Mr. Morden in the ongoing conflict with the Narn. The elderly and ailing Centauri emperor, long an advocate of reconciliation with the Narn, dies suddenly while visiting Babylon 5. A number of conspirators, including Londo Mollari and Refa, take control of the Centauri government by assassinating their opponents and placing the late emperor's unstable nephew on the throne. Their first act is to start open aggression against the Narn. After a full-scale war breaks out, the Centauri eventually conquer Narn in a brutal attack involving mass drivers, outlawed weapons of mass destruction. Towards the end of the year, the Clark administration begins to show increasingly totalitarian characteristics, clamping down on dissent and restricting freedom of speech. The Vorlons are revealed to be the basis of legends about angels on various worlds, including Earth, and are the ancient enemies of the Shadows. They enlist the aid of Sheridan and the Babylon 5 command staff in the struggle against the Shadows.

简介：　　The Psi Corps and President Clark, whose government has discovered Shadow vessels buried in Earth's solar system, begin to harness the vessels' advanced technology. The Clark administration continues to become increasingly xenophobic and totalitarian, and uses a military incident as an excuse to declare martial law. This triggers a war of independence on Mars, which had long had a strained political relationship with Earth. Babylon 5 also declares independence from Earth, along with several other outlying Earth Alliance colonies. In response, the Earth Alliance attempts to retake Babylon 5 by force, but with the aid of the Minbari, who have allied with the station against the growing Shadow threat, the attack is repelled.
　　Becoming concerned over the Shadows' growing influence amongst his people, Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari attempts to sever ties with them. Mr. Morden, the Shadows' human representative, tricks him into restoring the partnership by engineering the murder of Mollari's mistress while putting the blame on a rival Centauri House. Open warfare breaks out between the Shadows and the alliance led by Babylon 5 and the Minbari. It is learned that genetic manipulation by the Vorlons is the source of human telepathy, as it is later discovered that Shadow ships are vulnerable to telepathic attacks. Displeased at the Vorlons' lack of direct action against the Shadows, Captain John Sheridan browbeats Vorlon ambassador Kosh Naranek into launching an attack against their mutual enemy. Kosh's deeds lead to his subsequent assassination by the Shadows.
　　Former station commander Jeffrey Sinclair returns to Babylon 5 to enlist the aid of Captain Sheridan, Delenn, Ivanova and Marcus in stealing the Babylon 4 space station and sending it 1,000 years back in time to use it as a base of operations against the Shadows in the previous Minbari-Shadow war. Undergoing the same transformation as Delenn at the end of Season 1, Sinclair transforms into a Minbari and is subsequently revealed to be the actual Valen of Minbari legend, rather than a reincarnation. Spurred by the reappearance of his assumed-dead wife (who now works for the Shadows), Sheridan travels to Z'ha'dum, the Shadow homeworld, in an attempt by them to recruit him. However he instead destroys their largest city in a kamikaze nuclear attack, and is last seen jumping into a miles-deep pit to escape the explosion. Garibaldi, during a fight with Shadow vessels, goes missing.

简介：　　In 2261, the Vorlons join the Shadow War, but their tactics become a concern for the alliance when the Vorlons begin destroying entire planets which they deem to have been "influenced" by the Shadows. Disturbed by this turn of events, Babylon 5 recruits several other powerful and ancient races (the First Ones) to their cause, against both the Shadows and the Vorlons. Captain John Sheridan returns to the station after escaping from Z'ha'dum, but at a price: barring illness or injury, he has only 20 years left to live. He is accompanied by a mysterious alien named Lorien who claims to be the oldest sentient being in the galaxy.
　　Hours before Sheridan's return, Garibaldi is rescued and returned to the station, in rather dubious circumstances. He is markedly more paranoid and suspicious of other alien races and of Sheridan than he was before.
　　Centauri Emperor Cartagia forges a relationship with the Shadows. Londo Mollari engineers the assassination of Cartagia and repudiates his agreement with the Shadows. Londo kills Mr. Morden and destroys the Shadow vessels based on the Centauri homeworld, in an attempt to save his planet from destruction by the Vorlons. Aided by the other ancient races, and several younger ones, Sheridan lures both the Vorlons and the Shadows into an immense battle, during which the Vorlons and Shadows reveal that they have been left as guardians of the younger races, but due to philosophical differences, ended up using them as pawns in their endless wars throughout the ages. The younger races reject their continued interference, and the Vorlons and Shadows, along with the remaining First Ones, agree to depart the galaxy forever.
　　After the Shadows are defeated Garibaldi leaves his post as security chief and works on his own as a "provider of information". He begins working for one William Edgars, a Mars Tycoon, who is married to Garibaldi's former love. While he works ever closer with Edgars, he becomes increasingly aggressive towards Sheridan and eventually leaves Babylon 5.
　　Minbar is gripped by a brief civil war between the Warrior and Religious castes. Delenn secretly meets with Neroon of the Warrior caste and convinces him that neither side can be allowed to win. She tells him that she will undergo a ritual wherein she will be willing to sacrifice herself, but will stop the ritual before she actually dies. When Neroon sees that she actually intends to go through the entire ritual, he rescues her and sacrifices himself instead, declaring that, although he was born Warrior, in his heart he is Religious.
　　As part of the ongoing conflict between Earth and Babylon 5, Garibaldi eventually betrays Sheridan and arranges his capture in order to gain Edgars' trust and learn his plans. Garibaldi later learns that Edgars created a virus that is dangerous to only telepaths. It is then revealed, that Garibaldi was actually abducted by the Psi-Corps at the end of Season 3 and re-programmed by Bester to provide information to him at the right time. Bester releases Garibaldi of his programming, and allows him to remember everything he has done since being kidnapped. Edgars is killed and his wife disappears, but is reunited with Garibaldi after the end of the war. Garibaldi helps free Sheridan and return him to the campaign to free Earth. An alliance led by Babylon 5 frees Earth from totalitarian rule by President Clark in a short but bloody war. This culminates in Clark's suicide and the restoration of democratic government. Mars is granted full independence, and Sheridan agrees to resign his commission. The League of Non-Aligned Worlds is dissolved and reformed into the Interstellar Alliance, with Sheridan elected as its first President and continuing his command of the Rangers, who are to act as a galactic equivalent of United Nations peacekeepers.
　　In the season finale, the events of 100, 500, 1000, and one million years into the future are shown, depicting Babylon 5's lasting influence throughout history. Amongst the events shown are the political aftermath of the 2261 civil war, a subsequent nuclear war on Earth involving a new totalitarian government in the year AD 2762, the resulting fall of Earth into a pre-industrial society, the loss and restoration of humanity's knowledge of space travel, and the final evolution of mankind into energy beings similar to the Vorlons, after which Earth's sun goes nova.

简介：　　In 2262, Earthforce Captain Elizabeth Lochley is appointed to command Babylon 5. The station grows in its role as a sanctuary for rogue telepaths running from the Psi Corps, resulting in conflict. G'Kar, former Narn ambassador to Babylon 5, becomes unwillingly a spiritual icon after a book is published that he wrote while incarcerated during the Narn-Centauri War. The Drakh, former allies of the Shadows who remained in the galaxy, take control of Regent Virini on Centauri Prime through a parasitic creature called a Keeper, then incite a war between the Centauri and the Interstellar Alliance, in order to isolate the Centauri from the Alliance and gain a malleable homeworld for themselves.
　　Centauri Prime is devastated by Narn and Drazi warships and Londo Mollari becomes emperor, accepting a Drakh Keeper under threat of the complete nuclear destruction of the planet. (Portions of the end of his reign are seen in various prescient visions throughout the series; they show Mollari and former nemesis (and later friend) G'Kar sixteen years in the future dying at each other's throats, seemingly out of their grudge. It is gradually revealed that there was a much more friendly subtext, with Mollari having become a slave to the drakh rule and being tired of life; his Drakh Keeper awakens and strangles G'Kar in return. Vir Cotto, Mollari's loyal and more moral aide, succeeds him as emperor, free of Drakh influence. Sheridan and Delenn marry and move to Minbar, along with the headquarters of the Interstellar Alliance. G'Kar leaves Babylon 5 to escape his unwanted fame and explore the rim. Garibaldi also marries and settles down on Mars. Most of the other main characters leave B5.
　　Nineteen years later on the verge of death, Sheridan takes a final trip to the obsolete Babylon 5 station before its decommissioning. Sheridan apparently dies but is claimed by the First Ones, who invite him to join them on a journey beyond the rim of the galaxy. Babylon 5 station is destroyed in a demolition shortly after Sheridan's departure, its existence no longer necessary as the Alliance has taken over its diplomatic purposes. This final episode features a cameo by Straczynski as the technician who switches off the lights before Babylon 5 is demolished.

简介：　　The Practice, 讲一帮刑事辩护律师的故事。里面有大量的法庭辩论。以交叉询问为主，精彩的美国法庭戏。此剧是完全仿真的以法律调查为主题的系列剧。这是一家充满激情的律师事务所。对他们来说，每一个案子都是重要的，也会为每一个客户的利益争取到底。运用合法的策略是他们的工作方式，他们更依靠科学，把最受质疑的论点变得具有说服性。并且仍把追求正义放在首位，直到最终的结果被宣布……有时也会在宣判之后。然而追求正义，也常常使他们要面对伦理道德的是非问题。

简介：　　The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, & Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm's involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes' initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.

简介：　　Lindsay gets suspicious when Rebecca seems to be secretly awaiting an important letter - and realizes just how much she was right when the letter finally arrives. Ellenor gets a hysterical call from a client, who ran over a man in the street while drunk, and is shocked to discover exactly who he hit. Hellen prosecutes two boys accused of rape and murder, each accusing the other, and ends up making a deal with the wrong one.

简介：　　Bobby is called to defend his close friend, Scott Wallace, who is accused of killing his wife, and becomes overly involved in the case. Helen is concerned Richard has crossed the line in the case, when a witness coached by him lies on the stand.

简介：　　Ellenor is called to the house of her close friend, Senator Keith Ellison, where she finds the dead body of a man in his bed. The senator claims to shooting the man, thinking he was raping his wife, not realizing they're actually having an affair. In a sensational trial, full of twists and turns, Helen and new ADA Alan Lowe try to prove the senator murdered the man in a fit of rage - but no one is ready for the real truth behind this crime.

简介：　　The Practice focused on the meijubar.net law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, & Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm's involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes' initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.

简介：　　As the 8th season begins, nothing in the firm is as we remember. Bobby, Linsay, Rebecca and Lucy are all gone, leaving Ellenor, Eugene and Jimmy at the helm. Ellenor also hires an old friend, attorney Alan Shore, recently fired from his firm for embezzlement. Jimmy and and Eugene defend a woman who killed a drug dealer in her neighborhood in cold blood, desperate to stop him from selling drugs to children. Ellenor and Jaimie defend a man accused of killing his wife and unborn child, but begin to suspect he is actually protecting the real killer.

简介：　　汉语简介
　　19世纪工业革命传到美国，美国经济迅速发展，同时美国获得了西部的大片领土，急需劳动力，南方奴隶制成为经济发展的障碍。 1860年主张废除奴隶制的林肯当选总统，南方奴隶主发动叛乱，南方蓄奴州纷纷独立，1861年2月组成邦联政府，戴维斯当选总统。同年4月南方邦联军先发制人攻占萨姆特要塞，内战爆发。
　　南军准备充分，势如破竹，很快占领了海军基地诺福克，5月6日占领铁路枢纽马纳萨斯，进逼华盛顿，北军仓促应战，24日进入福吉尼亚。7月21日，北军被击溃，逃回华盛顿，林肯紧急动员50万志愿军。1862年，北军发动进攻，西线由格兰特指挥，进展顺利，2月攻克亨利堡和多纳尔森堡，4月在夏洛战役中击败南军，5月攻克科林斯和孟菲斯，解放了肯塔基和田那西。东线北军则进展迟缓，7月被罗伯特.李指挥的南军击溃，李乘胜北进，8月在布尔河再次击败北军，兵临华盛顿，9月两军进行安提塔姆会战，李被击退。12月北军在弗雷德里斯克堡战役中再次被李击败。
　　1863 年元旦林肯颁布「解放宣言」宣布解放黑奴，允许黑人参加北方军队，之后又颁布「宅地法」，允许所有美国人得到西部的土地。同年5月，北军再次进攻里士满，在切斯罗维尔被李击退。6月李再次北进，7月1日两军在葛底斯堡展开决战，3日南军被击败。在李北进的同时，格兰特在西线包围了南军防守密西西比河的要塞维克斯堡，5月22日北军发动总攻，进行了长达47天的炮击，7月4日南军投降。7月8日北军占领哈得逊港，南军被分割成东西两部分。9月北军攻克查塔努加，11月击退南军的反击。
　　1864年北方发动全面进攻，5～6月格兰特率军同李进行一系列会战，李虽然每次都能取胜，但北军的援军不断到达，李军团陷于绝望。6月15日，北军进攻彼得斯堡，双方相持不下，拖住了南军主力达9个月。7月厄尔利率南军一部再次奔袭华盛顿，被北军谢里登部击退，谢里登在进军途中实施焦土战略，厄尔利军瓦解。5月谢尔曼在西线发起进攻，9月2日攻占亚特兰大，并破坏了该城。之后谢尔曼以宽正面向佐治亚海岸进军，沿途实施焦土战略破坏了一切南方可资利用的资源，12月21日谢尔曼攻占萨凡纳，将南方邦联东部分割成南北两半。1865年1月，谢尔曼北上，2月相继攻克哥伦比亚和查尔斯顿，3月和格兰特会师，4月3日攻占彼得斯堡，9日李率残部投降。4月14日，南方派人刺杀了林肯。26日南方投降，内战结束。
　　南北战争摧毁了奴隶制，为美国资本主义经济的发展扫清了道路。这次战争中工业革命带来了军事上的巨大进步，双方使用了金属弹壳和后装填步枪作战，使用铁路和蒸汽船实现快速的兵力机动和集结，使用蒸汽铁甲战舰进行海战，机械连发枪第一次投入实战，特别是北方发展了制造标准化零件组装武器的生产方式，大大提高了工业生产效率。

简介：　　本片荣获2座金球奖和14项其他大奖。讲述了老牛仔们从墨西哥到加拿大的穿越之旅...
　　本片展现了美国西部浓郁的牛仔风情，故事情节跌宕起伏。
　　原著作者是 Larry McMurtry ，也就是现在有名的《断背山》的作者。

简介：　　比安卡（Larisa Oleynik饰）是全校公认的甜心宝贝，可事实上，她甚至未有过一次约会——比安卡的老爸对女儿的管教极尽苛刻，男生们只能对她望而却步。
　　在女儿的不断抗议下，老爸终于做了“让步”，他声明，比安卡可以约会，只要她的姐姐凯特（Julia Stiles饰）也去。听到这个消息，暗恋比安卡的喀麦隆（Joseph Gordon-Levitt饰）决心无论如何都要找到能和凯特约会的人。千挑万选之下，他找到派特里克（Heath Ledger饰）帮忙。
　　凯特可是人人眼中的怪物啊，仿佛愤世嫉俗般，对任何人和事都有一股不满的情绪。要让约会顺利进行，这是前所未有的挑战，还是一个不可能的任务？

简介：　　班纳路是关于尼尔班纳的一个迷人的性感的行动包装展示，他想改变自己，摆脱犯罪生涯。
　　The Bannen Way is a slick, sexy, action-packed show about Neal Bannen, a charming con-man with a police chief for a father, a mob boss for an uncle and a weakness for beautiful women, who wants to turn his life around and leave the criminal lifestyle forever.

简介：　　影片是简·奥斯汀的经典小说《理智与情感》的拉丁版本。故事背景为现代的洛杉矶。
　　姐姐诺拉·多米格兹（卡米拉·贝尔 Camilla Belle 饰）是一家法学院的学生，妹妹玛丽（阿丽夏·维加 Alexa Vega 饰）肄业在家，惟一在乎的就是购物和参加派对找乐子，她们和父亲一起在比佛利山过着极度奢华享受的生活。玛丽拒绝承认与生俱来的墨西哥血统当父亲突然过世之后，豪华的生活方式也就随之消失了。姐妹俩不仅变成了穷人，还被迫搬离现在的居所，搬到关系疏远的姑姑奥莉娅（阿德里安娜·芭拉扎 Adriana Barraza 饰）家中——位于洛杉矶东部博伊尔高地的一个以拉丁美洲人为主的社区。姐妹二人都感到非常地惊恐，她们既不会说西班牙语，也缺少应该具备的责任感，但是她们别无选择，只能慢慢地改变自己去适合一个全新的生活环境，把高档的跑车变卖掉，和普通人一样去搭乘公共汽车……
　　最终诺拉和玛丽是否可完全融入到了这个一直以来都被她们拒绝接受的文化根源？

简介：　　影片中出现的大象泰，还出现在了《大象的眼泪》一片中。
　　影片中出现的长颈鹿Tweet曾经出现在金·凯瑞的代表作《神探飞机头》之中。
　　富兰克林公园动物园是波士顿当地的一家著名的动物园，1913年开业，占地72英亩。
　　在富兰克林公园动物园，一群动物们都很爱他们好心的饲养员Griffin Keyes（凯文·詹姆斯 Kevin James），但他们发现他和狮子在一起比跟姑娘在一起相处融洽。Griffin觉得他找到人生另一半的唯一机会就是另找一个体面的工作，此时动物们都很伤心，他们决定向Griffin展示他们的秘密：他们能说人话！为了Griffin不要离开，他们当上了他的求爱老师，可惜是以动物的方式……

简介：　　这个家庭有着一对父母、十二个孩子和一堆宠物，热闹混乱的局面反而为家庭增添快乐。尤其是那些性格不一、年龄各异的儿女们，就像活宝一样深得父母欢喜。现在，这家人正面临着前所未有的变化：因为父亲汤姆（史蒂夫·马丁 Steve Martin 饰）要去大城市的高校球队任教，他们要搬往那里生活了，这亦意味着，孩子们会有更好的教育和更广阔的发展空间；当然，父母日渐繁忙的工作也会削减他们和孩子沟通的时间。
　　母亲凯特（邦尼·亨特 Bonnie Hunt 饰）的作家事业也如日中天，甚至要离家宣传新书。孩子们已经和父母日渐生疏，大城市的生活让这个家庭得到了日渐光鲜的地位，却失去了内在的情感纽带。看来，汤姆和凯特要重新思考和抉择了。

简介：　　拥有着12个孩子的欢乐家庭——贝克家族如今也难逃岁月出的难题。随着长女诺拉（派珀·佩拉博 Piper Perabo 饰）出嫁怀孕，孩子洛林又远赴纽约深造，身为家长的汤姆（史蒂夫·马丁 Steve Martin 饰）深感家庭聚会的时间将越来越少，今年假期也许是最后一个全员出游的机会，于是他和妻子凯特（邦尼·亨特 Bonnie Hunt 饰）精心策划了一个温内特湖畔的温馨旅行计划。然而汤姆万万没想到的是，他学生时代的宿敌吉米（尤金·列维 Eugene Levy 饰）竟然也带着自己的8个孩子来到了温内特湖消遣夏日。两个处处较劲的老爸，两个闹哄哄的家庭碰到一起，湖光山色瞬间变成火药味十足的战场，两家老小24口人全部出动，为了各自的“荣誉”，全力投入到这场鸡犬不宁、笑料百出的家庭大作战中……
　　本片为2003年家庭喜剧《儿女一箩筐》续集。

简介：　　老手与菜鸟飞机师驾驶的是中央情报秘密行机，运载东西更是包罗万有，从难民到军阀，从手榴弹到小猪，真是无奇不有。

简介：　　影片故事发生在朝鲜战场上，美军的一间野战医院，军医们整日不物正业，不是跟护士们大情骂悄，就是相互挖苦陷害。在种种笑料和喋喋不休的斗嘴中，影片懒散地展示着朝鲜战争中的美国军人，最终这场闹剧在一声“操他妈的军队”的恶骂中结束……

简介：　　玛蒂是人人都爱的黑疯婆子，毫无规矩也毫无成见的她继续着自己在银幕上的疯狂搞笑之旅。　在得知自己的侄女雪莉身体状况欠佳之后，玛蒂什么都没有考虑就来到了雪莉的家里看望她。雪莉的身体的确在很糟糕的状态，身患癌症的她希望自己“临终”之前能见到自己的三个已经成年的孩子。按照她的意愿，玛蒂把塔米、金伯利和拜伦召集了回来。一开始，一家人还能和睦相处，互相诉说着生活中的小事。可是随着相处的时间渐渐变长，家庭的矛盾慢慢地暴露了出来。
　　雪莉的三个孩子各有各的难处，塔米的孩子异常调皮、而且没有规矩，塔米拿他一点办法都没有，而且她对于自己失败的婚姻生活很是无奈；金伯利总是会对自己的丈夫莫名其妙地发火，而且这种怒火往往有“迁怒”的嫌疑；拜伦呢，是这其中生活最为艰辛的一个，他因为吸毒在监狱中呆了两年，现在似乎又要“故态复萌”，正在承受着复吸毒品的极大的压力。
　　现在，难题降临到了玛蒂的头上，她要用一己之力帮助整个家庭重回正轨。在这“拨乱反正”的过程中，玛蒂展示了自己那对于亲人的“狂野的爱”，她对生活的理解以及数不清的笑料。当然，过程很坎坷，家族的秘密也会被她发现。不过，结局却是一如既往地令人欣慰。
　　一句话评论
　　依然是标准的泰勒·派瑞式喜剧风格。
　　——《芝加哥论坛报》
　　妙趣横生的展示了当代美国家庭的生活。
　　——《今日美国》
　　幕后制作
　　从话剧到银幕
　　影片的导演是最近几年在好莱坞顺风顺水的黑人编剧、导演泰勒·派瑞，由他参与制作的影片《珍爱》曾在奥斯卡上大放异彩，后来他独立拍摄的《彩虹艳尽半边天》也以全明星的班底令人惊艳。但是泰勒·派瑞的看家本领还是拍摄疯癫的黑人喜剧。这些影片虽然谈不上有《珍爱》那样的现实意义，也没有《彩虹艳尽半边天》的诗意和艺术性。但它们都极受黑人观众的欢迎。
　　这部《黑疯婆子的快乐大家庭》改编自泰勒·派瑞创作的同名话剧，他在故事中虚构了一个叫做雪莉的女人，她被诊断出患了癌症，自知时日无多。她的愿望就是要把自己的孩子召集到身边，在亲人的关注下离去。雪莉这个角色的形象来自于泰勒·派瑞的母亲。2009年，泰勒的母亲被诊断出患了癌症，而且不久之后就离开了人世。围绕在他母亲离世前后的种种发生在家庭里事件，促使泰勒·派瑞编写出了话剧的剧本，并且把它改编成了电影剧本。泰勒·派瑞说：“每个家庭都会经历这些事情，有人离去、有人生活的并不如意。这是很正常的，事情的关键就是要看你如何去面对这一切。有人会因为家人的离去而悲痛欲绝，一蹶不振；还认人会因为家人离去而充满斗志。总的来说，我还是希望这种事情能促使人们重新审视自己的生活。在亲人离去的前后，家庭总是会出现波动，因为每个人都有自己的生活和过往，然而亲人的变故又把他们召集到一起。所以以前的矛盾、对现实生活的不满、对以往的难以原谅和宽容的情怀都会在这个时候显露出来。这个故事完全来源于生活，所以我在话剧相对要严肃一些。不过在银幕上，我把它改编成了一个喜剧，我并不希望人们看到银幕上有人要离去就很难过，因为生活并不会和你一起悲伤，我们还要继续往前走。不过，如果你有类似的生活经历，你肯定会被这个故事感动到的。”
　　在话剧版本中担任主演的香侬·凯恩、娜塔莉·狄赛尔还有反串玛蒂的泰勒本人都悉数出现在了电影版中。谈及从舞台上走到银幕里，香侬·凯恩说：“两者的感觉很不一样，拍电影和在舞台上表演是两个概念，虽然有相通的地方，但还是两个不一样的体系。就我个人来说，拍电影要稍微轻松一点，没有太固定的时间，可以及时回看自己的表演，不断地作出修正。但是难度在于一定要精确和到位，因为在银幕上，每一个表情都会被观众看到。可以说，电影中每个镜头都是相对独立的，所以我一定要专注于自己的部分，而在舞台上，所有的演员都是整体，还要有呼应和互动之类的。”
　　重新上路
　　从2006年的《玛蒂的家人重逢》开始，泰勒·派瑞拍摄的以黑人女性玛蒂为主角的“黑疯婆子系列”已经洋洋洒洒地走过了五年时间。这些影片有一个共同点，那就是总是聚焦在家庭的纷争之中，从家庭矛盾开始到解决家庭矛盾结束；而且泰勒·派瑞还会在影片中反串表演“黑疯婆子”。这些影片无一例外地都是准备给黑人观众看的，其中关于黑人的笑话、笑料，以及黑人特有的口语都得到了淋漓尽致的展示。
　　最近几年，泰勒·派瑞放缓了自己喜剧片的拍摄，转而参与拍摄了一些关于黑人现实生活的影片。不过对于泰勒的影迷而言，泰勒只是那个拍摄喜剧片的导演。泰勒说：“对于我个人而言，拍摄一部观众喜闻乐见，而且能得到广泛发行的影片非常重要。况且，在喜剧片中，我也想象不出比家庭喜剧更好的题材了，所以我只有重新回到玛蒂身上，从生活中提炼一个故事，然后把它制作成电影。我非常开心能再次拍摄玛蒂和她家庭的故事，狮门电影公司还是一如既往地支持我拍摄它。”谈及自己的反串表演，泰勒笑着说：“这几乎就是这些电影的一个标致了，如果我不再其中扮演玛蒂，那么这些电影的看点也会减少很多。我觉得既然观众喜欢我在银幕和舞台上出演玛蒂，那么我为什么不去满足他们的需要呢？”
　　狮门电影公司一样很高兴，因为泰勒·派瑞的“黑疯婆子”系列是以小搏大的影片。投资少，往往有固定的影迷群，所以收回成本并小赚一笔不成问题。狮门电影公司摄制部的负责人迈克·佩瑟奈克说：“泰勒·派瑞的影片有固定的观众群，而且家庭戏往往又有出其不意的好效果，所以我们很愿意来制作一部这样的电影。由于话剧DVD的销量良好，所以我们对这部电影也是充满了信心。可以说，在银幕上还没有第二个玛蒂，连类似的人物都没有。我们可不希望这么独一无二的银幕形象就断了线。对于我们来说，泰勒·派瑞就像是一个家人，他的才华、他的创作中的幽默、插科打诨、音乐和那种对黑人文化的认知和理解都是我们的财富和宝藏。也正是这些，泰勒才有自己相对固定的影迷群。他的电影，从来都不会缺少观众。”
　　花絮
　　·影片改编自泰勒·派瑞创作于2009年，上演于2010年的同名戏剧。
　　·本片是第十一部泰勒·派瑞执导的有关家庭的系列影片。

简介：　　A collision of worlds when two African-American families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds get together one weekend in Martha's Vineyard for a wedding.