一对兄弟长大之后决定寻找他们失踪多年的父亲,他在六十年代曾经是激进的无政府主义者,因参加布鲁克林的游击队准备向五角大厦丢炸弹而被通缉,因而离家逃亡。两兄弟根据线索找到一间旅馆,在那里投宿等候,不料女老板患有精神病的前夫出狱回来使情况变得复杂,而一名神秘的外国女子也设法阻止他们找到父亲。 1992年戛纳电影节提名金棕榈奖 1993年美国独立精神奖提名最佳女配角Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas. D:"Long Island is a a terminal moraine." B:"What's that?" D:"It's the material left behind when a glacier recedes." D:"Gee, then what the hell are we waiting for?"