在这部爱的激流喜剧/剧情片中,这部电影描述了一位作家哈蒙（John Cassavetes饰）和他的妹妹莎拉（Gena Rowlands饰）生命中的几天。电影中的大部分情节都是在哈蒙的家里发生的，他们在生活中挣扎：哈蒙过着极其颓废的生活，靠酒、烟、以及一段段短期的和女人的关系度日：或者是工作关系认识的女人，或是娱乐场所认识的女人。他也是一个非常不称职的父亲，把自己12岁的儿子扔在酒店的旅馆里里，甚至还教他学喝酒。而他的妹妹莎拉因为她的疯狂的言行正在和自己的丈夫离婚，她的女儿想要和父亲生活在一起，这给她极大的伤害，几乎精神崩溃。在电影的结尾，莎拉离开了哈蒙的家，和另外一个男人在一起，而哈蒙走到银幕前给观众说再见，也和自己的生命告别。
The film describes a few days in the life of the writer Robert Harmon and his sister Sarah. The decadent life of Robert is made of alcohol, cigarettes, and short-time relationships with women; women he interviews for a book, he spends a weekend with at a casino or fall in love with for the fun of an evening. Having no constraints, he his unable to be responsible for anything including the care of his son, leaving him alone in an hotel room and teaching the 8-years old boy how to drink. His life is made of his own phantasms as an artist. His sister is divorcing from her husband because of her exuberant and insane behavior. She scares her daughter Debbie who prefers to stay with her father, a decision that hurts Sarah very deeply and reinforces her nervous breakdown. Most of the movie takes place in the house of Robert. We watch Robert and Sarah struggling with their own lives. As the movie progresses, the house gets empty little by little...
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