基南·怀恩

　　Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very ingenious plan to get rid of his four helpers: he gets them all to unknowingly kill each other in the course of a single night.

　　A lawyer whose wife has had an affair sets out to leave her by flying to LA. He becomes ever more involved in the lives of a few fellow travelers on a journey that ends up showing him as much about himself as about the others.

　　一对曾经恩爱现已离婚的夫妻，不得不继续在音乐剧《驯悍记》中扮演主角。而这部音乐剧排练的过程并不顺利，一方面，是因为剧组要应对前情侣们的争执，再一个，就是有一伙黑帮，他们想要拿回属于自己的钱。

　　美国独立二百周年之际，精心筹备竞选活动的总统候选人，穿插其中的社会名流，借机扬名的乡村歌手，疯狂追捧的歌迷，冷眼旁观的BBC记者……各色人物你方唱罢我登场。在盛大的晚会上，女明星被刺杀使整部电影达到了最高潮。“你可以说，我不自由，但我并不为此而担忧”——在片尾冷漠的歌声中，镜头迅速地掠过场下喧嚣的人群，在那些呆滞或扭曲的面孔背后，是已被大众文化腐蚀而失去独立意识的空洞灵魂。　　擅长处理群戏的罗伯特•奥尔特曼以其出色的调度与控制力，在“喋喋不休”的对白与“混乱无序”的场景中，精确地描绘了越战阴影下美国芸芸众生的人情性态，并深刻揭示出普世欢腾气氛下的美国社会精神危机。本片获得奥斯卡最佳电影与最佳导演等提名，堪称美国70年代电影代表佳作。