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.。故事开始于1976年的8月,年幼的菲古斯结识了他日后一生的挚友弗兰奇,两个天真单纯的男孩之间结下了深厚而又真挚的友谊。长大后,他们双双加入了英国特种精英部队,为国家卖命。
时间一晃来到了2004年,辞职后的菲古斯和弗兰奇决定前往巴格达在那里组建他们的安保小组。然而,一场意外中,弗兰奇不幸失去了生命,菲古斯不愿意相信警方给出的模棱两可漏洞百出的结案报告,于是决定依靠自己的力量调查好友死亡的真相。唯一支持和帮助菲古斯的,是弗兰奇的恋人瑞秋,在两人寻找证据接近真相的同时,他们之间亦产生了美好的感情。。