A sniper returns home from Afghanistan to his small Northern town. Confronted with the mundane reality of everyday life he longs for the release provided by shooting. Slowly his need for regimented military discipline takes over leading to violent confrontation....
爱达荷州普林斯顿高中生拿破仑(乔恩•海德 Jon Heder 饰)是个衰蛋,带着厚厚的眼镜,不酷不帅,还总是搞怪。他和奶奶以及失业的哥哥凯普相依为命。他在学校不受同学待见,还经常被老师修理。他不合群,只能孤独地跟风车球使劲儿。后来,他结识了同学佩德罗(艾弗连•莱米雷斯 Efren Ramirez 饰),两人成了朋友。在佩德罗参加学生会主席竞选时,拿破仑贡献了自己的力量。一次,拿破仑在家扮沙发土豆时,有女孩黛比(蒂娜•米乔里诺 Tina Majorino 饰)上门推销。他于是对这个女孩产生了好感,但是没有勇气追求,只能想出一些拙劣的鬼点子,结果总是不欢而散。凯普看电视购物,被防身术教练深深吸引了,拉着拿破仑两人参加了俱乐部,没想到大失所望……...
Traumatised by the death of an innocent. Killer for hire Bradley drops out of society, seeking meaning roaming the dangerous streets of a tough inner city ghetto. When he encounters a savage pimp and a desperate woman under his control Bradley finds the means to give battle to the inner demons that have eluded him. He embarks on a quest to save a young girl from the clutches of the brutal gangsters that trade human beings as currency. Drawn deeper into a sickening world in which age is no bar to exploitation and pursued by police, gangland villains and a mysterious agency known only as The Executive. Bradley discovers an ever deepening web of corruption and vice, and a dangerous game in which nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted....
位于美国北卡罗莱纳州温斯顿沙兰市(Winston Salem)的RJR纳贝斯克饼干公司股 东们,虽然受到全球瞩目,金钱不断涌入,光是在2月底的邮件中,就收到总数达20 亿美圆的支票,但很少有股东对公司的高级执行总裁罗斯.强生(Ross Johnson)心存 感激。现在,温斯顿沙兰市也变成前所未有的百万富翁市。所有与RJR公司有关的华尔街 大亨都想从中分到一点好处,于是罗斯找来财务专家亨利和彼得来为他效力。接下来上演的便是一出充满贪婪、背叛、尔虞我诈和高风险赌注的华尔街风云。
根据布莱恩.巴勒和约翰.海勒撰写的《Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco》中文译名:《门口的野蛮人:RJR纳贝斯克的陨落》改编。
该书描写了1988年美国第二大烟草公司RJR融资收购饼干生产商Nabisco的交易。即使如今看来,这笔总额达250亿美元的收购也十分惊人,不禁让人对有关人物的行动产生 疑虑。当时,这也是华尔街历史上最大的收购资金。而1989年美国Kohlberg KravisRoberts 公司又以314亿美元的价格刷新了此纪录,其收购对象就是RJR Nabisco公司。
读过此书,你会惊奇地发现网络和个人对世界商业和经济的操纵力有多大。它向我 们揭示了CEO被给予的巨大权利和机会,从中你会懂得谁才是真正的"玩家"。 该书被《福布斯》杂志评选为20年来美国最具影响力的20本商业书籍之一。也被选择摘编到里奥·高夫的投资经典著作《一次读完25本投资经典》中。...
After his dog is killed in Skid Row, Jake Rosser (Aaron Eckhart) plummets deep into a sinister underworld to uncover the truth about who may be responsible....