滑向未来

　　憨厚纯朴的刘十八退伍回乡后招聘到县电视台当保安。他暗暗喜欢上了电视台美女主播宋晨，这让青梅竹马的同村姑娘秀秀暗自伤心。在经历了感情挫折、工作磨砺后，刘十八终于找准了自己的人生价值和人生定位，开启了自己平凡但不平庸的精彩人生。

　　斯坦顿（布莱德利·库珀 Bradley Cooper 饰）是一个穷困潦倒的男人，误打误撞之中来到了流动马戏团，在这里，他凭借着自己的聪明才智为自己某得了一份差事——为塔罗牌占卜师赞娜（托妮·科莱特 Toni Collette 饰）和她的情人皮特（大卫·斯特雷泽恩 David Strathairn 饰）工作。从这两个人身上，斯坦顿学会了如何依靠巧舌如簧和敏锐观察来施展观众们眼中的“魔法”。
　　与此同时，斯坦顿还在马戏团里邂逅了名为茉莉（鲁妮·玛拉 Rooney Mara 饰）的女孩，随着时间的推移，斯坦顿和茉莉之间产生了感情。最终，斯坦顿带着茉莉离开了马戏团，他们坚信他们能够靠自己的双手打开一片属于他们的天地。一晃眼多年过去，虽然斯坦顿在占卜圈已经小有名气，但他并不满足，渴望更多的金钱。此时，一个名叫莉莉丝（凯特·布兰切特 Cate Blanchett 饰）的女人出现在了他面前。

　　作为全国最年轻的计划生育诊所主任之一，艾比·约翰逊(Abby Johnson)参与了超过2.2万例堕胎，并为无数妇女提供生育选择方面的咨询。她对妇女选择权的热情促使她成为计划生育的代言人，为她深信不疑的事业而努力制定法律。直到有一天她看到了改变一切的东西。

　　Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie.
　　They don’t make ’em like Little Dixie anymore: honed to the bone, all gestures and actions, only a few words. Too many genre films these days try to create meaning by piling ideas and intentions on their narrative frames. John Swab, as always, works the other way around. Meaning and depth come from taking away whatever is superfluous – by reducing the plot to its bare essence and the characters to their core trades and tricks.
　　Ultimately, Little Dixie feels like the pulp fiction version of a Giacometti sculpture, all fearful symmetries and mirror images. A gem of crime cinema at its purest and most philosophical, proudly featuring noir’s new darling, Frank Grillo.