内容描述苏联发生政变时,叛变者控制了一个核子飞弹基地,威胁要攻击美国。美国政府急命阿拉巴马号核子潜艇准备反攻,但就在是否要下达攻击令的关键时刻,潜艇的通讯系统发生故障,无法判断攻击令的真伪。哈克曼饰演的潜艇指挥官决定发射,但新来的副官华盛顿却认为事关重大,应确定讯息再说,不惜为此发动兵变囚禁上司。
Charles Burnett, one of America's most highly regarded independent filmmakers, wrote and directed this domestic drama about a black middle-class family living in South central Los Angeles. However, there are no gangs, no guns, no drugs but instead a lyrical story that draws on folklore and the supernatural. family tensions are already simmering when Harry (Danny Glover) arrives to visit his old friends. He exudes an easy charm, knows secret past and present and is soon installed in the heart of the family. However, as his stay lengthens, so does he begin to cast an even more malevolent spell, provoking turmoil, setting son against son, reviving past hatreds, and inflicting a mysterious illness. Glover delivers a career-topping performance as the garrulous family friend, full of hidden menace, effortlessly evoking nostalgia and horror in the same breath. As ever, Burnett provides a wonderful music track featuring gospel, blues and jazz and a cameo from the legendary Jimmy Weatherspoon. 'A slow-burning, soul-insinuating, 12-bar blues of a movie.' Tom Charity, Time Out 'Danny Glover is marvellous, and terrifying, as a charismatic old-timer.' The Times (from the description on the back cover of the DVD)