在外星人的眼中,地球人就是供他们玩乐的消遣。一群外星人打了一个赌,赌注是地球的存亡。他们在地球上随机选了一个人,赋予他心想事成的超能力,如果这个人最终成为了贪得无厌的恶人,外星人就选择把地球毁灭,但如果这个人依然维持着善良的本性,则意味着地球仍然有着继续运转的意义。
平凡而又内向的中学老师尼尔(西蒙·佩吉 Simon Pegg 饰)成为了这名干系到地球存亡的天选之子,在拥有了超能力后,尼尔的身边发生了一连串有惊无险令人不知该笑还是该害怕的意外。与此同时,尼尔默默爱慕的女子凯瑟琳(凯特·贝金赛尔 Kate Beckinsale 饰)也被卷入了危险之中。
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.