威尔欧丁（达尼埃尔·麦克唐纳 Danielle Macdonald 饰）是一个身材有些微胖的女孩，久久人们给她取了一个外号叫做“饺子”。威尔欧丁的母亲罗西（詹妮弗·安妮斯顿 Jennifer Aniston 饰）曾经是当地的选美皇后，久久并且一直都在热心的策划着每一届选美比赛。人到中年但风韵犹存的罗西让威尔欧丁对自己的容貌和身材感到更加的自卑，母女两人常常因为这种事情拌嘴吵架。威尔欧丁决定在罗西策划的选美比赛中捣乱，于是勇敢报名。之后，在一家酒吧里，威尔欧丁遇见了扮装皇后多利（哈罗·佩里纽 Harold Perrineau Jr. 饰），多利看出了女孩内心的秘密，于是决定帮助威尔欧丁，将她变成一个更好的人。
回复 :Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career.Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.)As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played.The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument).Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
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回复 :为了向女友和她的父亲证明自己，失败的修车员踏上朝圣之旅，却在途中遇到了种种意外。
