姐夫的独宠

 失意的小说家兼教授塞隆尼斯·“蒙克”·埃里森（杰弗里·怀特 Jeffrey Wright 饰）出于怨恨，用开玩笑的方式写了一本小说，书中充斥着古怪刻板印象的黑人形象。不料这本书出版后大受好评，不仅获得文学大奖，还被拍成电影。

　　在《吸血鬼德古拉》小说原作者布莱姆·斯托克笔下的一章“船长日志”中，“得墨忒尔”是把德古拉从特兰西瓦尼亚运到伦敦的船的名字——这艘俄国帆船运送着50个没有标记的大木箱出发，而此后在英国海岸线上搁浅，破破烂烂，全船仅存一个疯癫的幸存者。本片的故事将详细聚焦得墨忒耳号的那趟可怕旅程：某神秘的乘客把船员们一个接一个屠杀。

影片讲述东北“犟种”李明奇（蒋奇明 饰）和他的妻子高雅风（李雪琴 饰）如何用一辈子的时间，守护一个“飞上天”的大梦想。在生活的重压下，这个梦想时而成为谋生的工具，时而又成为照亮绝境的唯一光芒。为了托起沉甸甸的生活，李明奇从599米的高空一跃而下，对命运做出勇敢反击。

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...