夏天的秘密

　　米勒一家似乎拥有所有人都梦寐以求的生活：豪宅、跑车、美满的家庭。在一个普通的日子，美丽的妻子萨拉（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman 饰）迎接出差回家的丈夫，成功的钻石采购商凯尔（尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）。凯尔回家的同时青春期的女儿则艾弗瑞（丽亚娜·莱伯拉托 Liana Liberato 饰）瞒着父母偷偷溜出家门去参加朋友家的派对。可是天有不测风云，一伙由四人组成的抢劫团伙闯进米勒家，绑架了夫妇二人欲实施抢劫。艾弗瑞参加完派对回家也不幸撞到了家中正在发生的悲剧。面对丧心病狂的劫匪，米勒一家将怎样解除危机？他们是否会安然无恙？而这看似普通的抢劫背后是否又有不为人知的阴谋和肮脏的秘密？

　　In a small rural community local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but it soon becomes clear that something is wrong. Strange events unfold before their eyes, residents begin behaving strangely and mass suicide panic spreads amongst the community they are trying to protect. Zoe and Patrick realise they are under siege from alien machines as they become cut off from the outside world. They are forced to do battle against these uninvited visitors. With the help of some of the residents Zoe and Patrick begin unravelling the mystery and soon discover it is not all as it seems. Can Zoe and Patrick save their community and the outside world from extinction?　　在一个小的农村社区，当地警察佐伊和帕特里克开始正常换班，但很快就清楚出了问题。奇怪的事情展现在他们眼前，居民开始奇怪的行为，大规模的自杀恐慌在他们试图保护的社区中蔓延。佐伊和帕特里克意识到，当他们与外界隔绝时，他们正受到外来机器的围攻。他们被迫与这些不速之客作战。在一些居民的帮助下，佐伊和帕特里克开始解开这个谜团，很快发现它并不像看上去的那样。佐伊和帕特里克能拯救他们的社区和外部世界免于灭绝吗？

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　2003年，福冈市的一所市立小学，发生了一起老师欺凌学生的恶性事件。一名男性教师以种族歧视为由，对“有美国人血统”的四年级学生处处找碴，施行恶毒的语言暴力和残酷的体罚。该学生的家长对教师提起民事诉讼，550名律师自发组成原告律师团。福冈市教育委员会也对教师做出了停职处罚。行为如此恶劣的教师堪称罕见，经《周刊文春》《朝日新闻》等主流媒体报导，引起轩然大波，涉案教师被冠上“史上最恶劣的‘杀人教师’”的名号；但欺凌事件真的发生了吗？随着调查的深入，事件发生了惊人的逆转……　　影片改编自记者福田真澄2007年出版的一本书，名为《捏造：福冈“杀人老师”的真相》。