简介：12岁的乔什（汤姆·汉克斯 Tom Hanks 饰）似乎对自己的年龄有些意见：个子太矮而无法坐绕环滑车，年纪太小追不到心仪女孩……于是他向游乐场里的一个古旧许愿机投了25美分，许愿变成一个大人。不料第二天起床，乔什竟发现自己一夜之间长大了近20岁，现在他是一个不折不扣的大人了，连母亲都认为他是绑架儿子的陌生人而将他赶了出去。乔什只好自谋生计，在一家玩具公司找到了职位。在一次偶然的机会，乔什孩子般的天真与热情给玩具公司老板留下了深刻印象，他的点子也使他在工作中频获嘉奖，很快住进了宽敞的公寓，并与年轻同事苏珊（伊丽莎白·帕金斯 Elizabeth Perkins 饰）展开了浪漫恋情。然而随着工作、生活、爱情这些成人世界的压力开始向乔什逼近，乔什那颗刚满13岁的心渐渐感到困倦失落，他开始回想，这是否就是自己想要的成长…… 本片曾获提名奥斯卡最佳男主角及最佳原创剧本。
简介：In the bleak filmscape of glasnost, The Needle stood out as a black sheep of a movie. The most playful and offbeat of the Soviet films of the period, it contrasted sharply to the mainstream, which was overwhelmed with revisionism of the Stalinist past and nihilistic social criticism. Made in 1988 by a young Kazakh director, Rashid Nugmanov, fresh out of VGIK (the national film school), The Needle was a pioneering effort in several ways. Having come from a remote, stagnant republic of Kazakhstan, the picture set off a movement that has come to be known as the"Kazakh New Wave." Represented by such works as Alexander Baranov's and Bakhyt Kilibayev's The Three (1988) and Woman of the Day (1990); Kilibayev's The Tick (1990); Baranov's He and She (1990); Abai Karpykov's Little Fish in Love (1989); and Serik Aprymov's The Last Stop (1989), the Kazakh New Wave was for the agonizing Soviet film of the late 1980s what the French New Wave was for the dusty French film of the late 1950s. The Needle was the movement's a bout de souffle. The film also became a model for the Russian version of postmodernism—uninhibited and uninformed, compensating for the lack of culture, skill, and resources with mischief and wit. A young man named Moro (played by Viktor Tsoi, the late rock 'n' roll legend from the St. Petersburg band"Kino") returns to his Asiatic hometown only to find his exgirlfriend, Dina (Marina Smirnova), becoming a drug addict and himself becoming involved in the bizarre life of the city's underworld. In an attempt to save Dina, Moro takes her away to the Aral Sea, turned into a barren desert by the time they arrive. There Dina seems cured, but back in town everything starts anew. Almost desperate, Moro decides to fight the drug dealers, led by a hospital doctor (played by another rock 'n' roll star, eccentric leader of the"Sound of Mu" band and the future star of Taxi Blues, Pyotr Mamonov), when one of them stabs him in a deserted park.