It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

2010 Hong Kong film directed by Alex Law

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

2007 film directed by Marc Forster

《平凡的世界》是一部现实主义小说，也是一部小说形式的家族史。作者浓缩了中国西北农村的历史变迁过程，在小说中全景式地表现了中国当代城乡的社会生活。在近十年的广阔背景下，通过复杂的矛盾纠葛，刻划社会各阶层众多普通人的形象。劳动与爱情，挫折与追求，痛苦与欢乐，日常生活与巨大社会冲突，纷繁地交织在一起，深刻地展示了普通人在大时代历史进程中所走过的艰难曲折的道路。

地主少爷富贵嗜赌成性，终于赌光了家业一贫如洗，穷困之中的富贵因为母亲生病前去求医，没想到半路上被国民党部队抓了壮丁，后被解放军所俘虏，回到家乡他才知道母亲已经去世，妻子家珍含辛茹苦带大了一双儿女，但女儿不幸变成了聋哑人，儿子机灵活泼……
然而，真正的悲剧从此才开始渐次上演，每读一页，都让我们止不住泪湿双眼，因为生命里难得的温情将被一次次死亡撕扯得粉碎，只剩得老了的富贵伴随着一头老牛在阳光下回忆。