The film opens with a narrated disclaimer over footage of an opening coffin. The narrator explains that the film's climax is so terrifying that it may kill the viewer, and reassures the audience that if they die of fright while watching the film, they will receive a free burial service, and it closes on the casket which has a card inside reading "Reserved for You."[1]
Newlyweds Jenni (Peggy Webber) and Eric (John Hudson) move into Eric's palatial country home. Jenni is Eric's second wife; his first wife Marion died when she accidentally slipped and hit her head on the edge of a decorative pond on the estate. At the home they meet Eric's friends, the Reverend Snow (Russ Conway) and his wife (Toni Johnson), as well as Mickey (Alex Nicol), the developmentally disabled gardener. Eric privately mentions to the Snows that Jenni spent time in an asylum following the sudden death of both her parents, and Mrs. Snow reveals that Jenni is very wealthy.
Jenni is disturbed both by Mickey's belief that Marion's ghost wanders the estate and by Marion's self-portrait inside the house, which Jenni believes resembles her mother. When she begins to hear unexplained screaming noises and see skulls around her house, she believes that Marion is haunting her. Though Eric speculates to Jenni that Mickey, who was a childhood friend of Marion and thus dislikes Jenni, may be behind the trickery, Jenni worries that she is going insane. Eric then suggests to remove Marion's self-portrait from the home. Eric and Jenni take the painting outside and burn it. While they clean up the remains of the painting, a skull emerges from the ashes. While Jenni panics at the sight of the skull, Eric denies that the skull is there. Jenni faints and Eric withdraws the skull and hides it, revealing that he was responsible for the trickery all along in an effort to get hold of her wealth.
Believing she has finally lost her sanity, Jenni resolves to be committed. She tells Eric that the entire property will be meticulously searched for the skull as a last resort. Before Eric can retrieve it, Mickey secretly steals the skull and brings it to the Reverend, revealing Eric's plans. That night, Eric prepares to murder Jenni and stage it as a suicide. Jenni sees Marion's ghost in Mickey's greenhouse and flees back to the house. When she enters, Eric begins throttling her. The ghost then appears and chases Eric outside and about the property; it finally corners and attacks him, drowning him in the decorative pond.
After Jenni regains consciousness, the Snows arrive. Mrs. Snow comforts a hysterical Jenni and the Reverend discovers Eric's body in the pond. Some undisclosed time later, Jenni and the Snows depart from the house. Reverend Snow declares whether or not Marion's death was an accident will remain a mystery.
有趣的灵魂万里无一。这片子怎么好我说不出来，应该说这部片子可以算是所有做作的恋爱电影的终极反义词了。
两星给画面和演员。好老套的剧情，好male gaze的结局，好低俗的亚裔玩笑，不敢想象这是2021年好评如潮的作品（而且70mm的放映机画面一直在频闪，看得我眼要瞎掉了。。。
PTA拍糖水片日剧跑，带着三分漫不经心和七分玩票交差。
比烂爱情故事？姑娘觉得小男孩儿小但是“熟男”们更是自恋疯狂油腻或者压根儿深柜基意思大家兜兜转转还是奔向彼此，看在浪漫喜剧和成长电影的主题还是打四星但不得不诚实地说我一直不太能体会PTA电影的点……
因为是PTA所以觉得比较失望，题材本身完成度蛮高，但感觉这个故事不痛不痒，只是一个普通的爱情小品。后半段几个明星进来感觉就在凑时长了，作用可有可无。但可能它讲的就是普通人的故事吧，倒卡车那段还蛮喜欢的，但总体感觉还不如当年的《私恋失调》。
PTA这部属于是那种看着也能看，也不会煎熬，然而看了一遍也就看了，记着一些画面，记着这个简单的故事，只是心里和情绪上都没留下什么的一部电影。这些年（始于Phantom Thread）的PTA不知道是咋了……
其实还可以，演的很好。但我真的受不了一会搞笑一会煽情。且煽情的刻意又尴尬。
啥呀这是？初恋故事版的好莱坞往事？对于非美国观众完全没有吸引力。刚开始还算正常，自从肖恩潘出来直接崩盘，让这些大牌出来秀一下难道就想让大家认识一下PTA你的朋友圈？
Punch punch, love love,not drunk this time because they love to run. 讲真，这不是如今难得一见的《大撒把》么
开心麻花的戏，你要说好看吧，看后又记不住任何，你要说不好看吧，毕竟你也跟着笑了
真实的感受是，水准之上，跑起来的剪辑跟最后女主跟议员三人行的镜头都有眼睛为之一亮，从女主的人物来说是比较舒服的视角，她在那时代背景下、和自己心里的来回纠结、尝试，都是很真诚的自白，机会和爱情、不是屈就的选择，有人为你赶走生活的无奈确实感人，哪怕只是一时的。整体流畅、PTA还是很会营造氛围，文本也把美国小镇文化（靠近好莱坞、导演童年记忆的背景）很全面的展开了，但或许这么独特的一段回忆和感觉跟观众难有共鸣，也或许我期待太高，看完满失望的。
文化、经济、政治三种权力手势解构了青春爱情。
（可能是，教科书级别烂俗爱情电影再添一员力将？
又拍起了纯纯的爱情，就算融入了石油危机,社会恐同的大环境下理想主义政客也不敢出柜做自己的70年代大背景，这部也还是太轻巧没野心了吧。
像是大麻的烟雾中露出一丝清醒的尴尬，或是极佳的光源和花样的镜头调度下迷幻的人物说着不着边际的台词，荒诞的胡闹过后在破晓时分认清自己的处境。
年度十佳之六 pta怎么这么厉害 能把一个欲拒还迎日久生情寻找真爱的故事塞进那么多东西到最后还是可以回归纯粹 那种质朴 坦诚 不造作而温柔的互动与之蕴含的情愫 怀旧滤镜 颗粒感和过曝反而为画面注入活力 女主的一路追爱 那其中蕴含的幻灭不解与恐惧让人感同身受 当我们遇到某个人时我们从来都没想过会有那么一天 而那种费大力气去吸引拼命撮合的关系在这种自然而然浑然天成的感情衬托下实在是太肮脏也太无趣 选角看出了 菲利普霍夫曼 伊万麦克尔雷格和mark ruffalo的脸 这种时间跨度长叙事让我闪回到不羁夜 太喜欢pta的台词了/pta还是太温柔太理想主义 女主今年刚好和我同岁 amc lincoln center
复古轻快又很真诚的爱情小品，镜头调度还是一如既往的迷人，男女主表演很自然…
2.5 超过七天的爱情都是妥协，不知道PTA怎么会在倒车戏后接这样一个“大圆满”结局，无限压榨独立女性生存空间，是不是自己都不知道自己在拍什么？
丑男丑女也就算了，年龄差距也不是啥新鲜事儿，这种故事有什么可以拿出来演绎的，都是各种无聊的破事儿，所谓的创业就像儿戏。比《吸大麻的孩子》差出十条街。也就61岁的西恩·潘那场戏值得一看，库珀出来几分钟演了个啥。奥斯卡越来越三流。4
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