Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。在商业区附近的某条商店街角落,门上画了猫咪图案的餐馆──“猫咪西餐厅”。虽然是西餐厅,但西餐以外的菜单也非常丰富。这么一间不起眼的小餐厅,在每周六都会对外公休,但是其实每到这天,都要迎接来自“异想世界”食客的光顾,这群客人不论是人族、魔族、鬼族、精灵族、蜥蜴人族、吸血鬼族、兽人、传说的魔龙,都会从一扇神秘的“门”内光临!他们带各自的烦恼来到这里,又同样都因美食得到了治愈。。该剧改编自《喜鹊谋杀案》的直接续作,编辑苏珊死里逃生,和交往多年的男友安德烈亚斯移居克里特岛,并在岛上经营一座家庭旅馆。但生活却从想象中的美好变成了现实的一地鸡毛——岛上旅馆的一切都让她筋疲力尽。苏珊开始想念她在伦敦的出版人生涯,尽管她的出版事业曾将她置于致命危险中。某天,两位不速之客的到访打破了苏珊百无聊赖的平静生活。一对来自英格兰的夫妇找到她,讲述了一桩他们的女儿塞西莉婚礼当天,发生在自家经营酒店中的谋杀案。苏珊情不自禁地为此着迷。他们声称,塞西莉在读完《阿提库斯·庞德来断案》(艾伦·康威所著,苏珊几年前编辑出版的一本犯罪小说)几个小时后离奇失踪。为了拯救塞西莉,苏珊知道自己必须回到伦敦,找出事实真相。再次翻开《阿提库斯·庞德来断案》,苏珊仿佛看见阴魂不散的艾伦·康威出现在眼前。酒店发生的谋杀案与塞西莉失踪之谜,一定就隐藏在这本小说中。苏珊需要揭开书中隐藏的秘密,并在为时已晚之前找到塞西莉。。