正午之星

　　本片改编自民间传说，几个世纪以来，在不同的文化背景下，父母都会警告他们的孩子要小心传说中的Bagman。Bagman会把无辜的孩子抓走，塞进那肮脏腐烂的袋子里，再也没法回到父母身边。Patrick McKee小时候曾逃过此劫，但这给他的生活留下了永久的创伤。现在，Bagman又回来了，威胁着他妻子Karina和儿子Jake的安全。

故事围绕着八岁的维奥丽特展开。在父母离世后，她搬到了脾气暴躁的舅舅雷吉斯家中生活。雷吉斯是凡尔赛宫的一名维修工人。他们一起度过了人生中的种种难关，在凡尔赛宫的历史背景下建立了深厚的感情。

　　故事发生在一座位于俄亥俄州中的小镇之内，丹琪（薇诺娜·瑞德 Winona Ryder 饰）是出生在这里的一位非常叛逆的少女，丹琪的父母很早就离开了她，她由养父母一手拉扯长大。某日，好莱坞大明星洛克西（卡拉·古奇诺 Carla Gugino 饰）将要衣锦还乡的消息传遍了小镇上下，洛克西就是从这个小镇里走出去的，全镇的人都等待着想要一睹这位大明星的风采。　　对于丹琪来说，洛克西的回归还有着另外的一层重要意义，她一直怀疑自己是她的私生女。丹琪四处打听，想要得到确切的证据，然而她的养父母对此并不知情，洛克西曾经的情人丹顿（杰夫·丹尼尔斯 Jeff Daniels 饰）对这件事也三缄其口。丹琪决定离家出走，在半途上拦截洛克西，问个清楚。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.