A scientist on a secluded island uses revolutionary brain surgery to revive his dead wife.

Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...

When he discovers the world is about to end, a lovestruck teen makes it his mission to bed the girl he has fallen for.

When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.

由伊哥·奥森斯导演的本片，讲述的是女主角珍妮基于对新婚丈夫的爱，来到从来没有一个白人女子涉足过的偏远牧场。当时，西方社会还是一个大男人主义的时代，不但黑人土着被歧视，白人女子也没有多少地位，所以珍妮在刚抵牧场时吃了不少的苦。然而越是艰难困苦的环境，越能产生坚强意志与斗志。 这段争取女权与女性地位的过程，是全片中表现最出色的地方。看完本片很容易使人联想到由薛尼波勒导演的《远离非洲》，两部片子同是根据女作家的经典名着改编。在拍摄方面，该片的大自然景观相当可取，带有一点美国西部片的味道，摄影配乐皆有水准，若能在节凑处理上爽快和精炼一点，当会让观众感到更加满意。

故事发生在1860年的澳洲，彼时，糖尿病依旧是无法治愈的绝症。一场意外夺去了伯爵之子哈瑞（鲁伯特·艾弗雷特 Rupert Everett 饰）的一只手臂，令从小热爱马匹的他再也无法驰骋于马背之上。哈瑞雇佣了名为奈德（雨果·维文 Hugo Weaving 饰）的马车夫，随着时间的流逝，两人之间产生了坚实的友谊。 哈瑞爱慕名为莎拉（Catherine McClements 饰）的女子，然而，因为哈瑞患有糖尿病，令莎拉的母亲对这门亲事持有坚决反对的态度。日子一天天过去，哈瑞的身体日渐憔悴，在大限之日到来之前，他希望能够留下后代继承他的财产，于是，他想到了奈德，希望他能够代替自己，带给莎拉一个儿子。

When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.

弗雷德.谢波西 系列之一 澳大利亚弗雷德.谢波西一鸣惊人处女作 荣获1976年澳洲电影学院奖最佳影片/导演/剧本/男主角/摄影5项大奖! 「辛德勒的名单」原著金尼利在本片中亲自出马饰演神父一角，演技广受好评，值得一看。