在这部大象的叹息喜剧片中,一个严肃的人，没有朋友可言，乔尔比克斯比搬到一个小镇，与里昂·阿普尔盖特成为朋友。当里昂邀请乔尔参加聚会，乔尔认为这是走出自己的好机会。但很多时候，乔尔越跟他们接触，越清晰的明白自己是以为因思念老朋友而离开的人的替补。无论如何，新人在这个圈子里逐渐适应，不止是里昂，还有丁克 ，佩里 ，和尼，一个失业者告诉他好日子就在眼前。在他们的例行聚会后令人难以置信的事情发生了，乔尔终于意识到，有朋友在身边，再大的困境都不是那么糟糕。
"After moving to a small, rural town, uptight Joel Bixby (Tony Award-nominee John Cariani, Showtime, Kissing Jessica Stein), is invited by an agreeable new acquaintance to join a group of townsmen who meet in a ramshackle room at the edge of town. Normally a loner, Joel finds himself enamored by boisterous, fast food connoisseur Leo Applegate (Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Edward Asner, Up, Elf, TV's Lou Grant and The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and reluctantly agrees to go. Unknowingly the "replacement" for a beloved member who recently passed away, Joel meets the group's other surviving members and is swept up in their strange lives, but struggles with their secretive purpose for gathering ... until he realizes each of them is as lost as himself. Gleeful Dink (Jack Kehler, Men in Black II, The Big Lebowski), who deeply loves his bald wife, is "in touch" with his feminine side; Perry (David Wells, Basic Instinct, Starman, Beverly Hills Cop), a former minister, is suffering a crisis of ...
My own sigh。随便的感受。一部关于友情和生活热情的电影。
