柏林情事

　　A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.

 失意的小说家兼教授塞隆尼斯·“蒙克”·埃里森（杰弗里·怀特 Jeffrey Wright 饰）出于怨恨，用开玩笑的方式写了一本小说，书中充斥着古怪刻板印象的黑人形象。不料这本书出版后大受好评，不仅获得文学大奖，还被拍成电影。

拳击手大卓因意外受伤告别了擂台，在小区当了一个保安。在照顾患有痴呆症父亲的过程中，大卓渐渐理解了父亲多年来对他的爱，父子间童年时的心结被解开。为弥补父亲曾经的遗憾，大卓重拾信心，再一次站到了擂台之上。

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...