乔治娅奥基弗(琼·艾伦 Joan Allen 饰)是一位个性独立自信自强的先锋女性,一次偶然中,她和著名摄影师史地格兹(杰瑞米·艾恩斯 Jeremy Irons 饰)相识了。起初,两人的相处并不愉快,但随着时间的推移,一种艺术家之间的心心相惜让两人之间的距离越走越近,最终摩擦出了炙热的爱情火花,史地格兹甚至为了乔治亚而结束了自己的婚姻。
两人之间的爱情虽然璀璨,但却犹如划过夜空的烟火,无法持久。随着乔治娅的名气越来越大,无法望其项背的史地格兹感受到了被抛弃的滋味。在反复的争吵和背叛中,乔治娅与史地格兹的感情终于走到了尽头,离开成为了乔治娅唯一的选择,然而她明白,这并不是她人生的终结,而仅仅是开始。。Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。Karl Hochman, a technician in a computer shop, is also "The Address-Book Killer", who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address-books. Terry Munroe and her son Josh come into the store to price software, and a salesman uses Terry's address-book to demonstrate a hand-held scanner. Karl obtains the file, and while driving to Terry's house that night in a heavy electric...。