UCLA college student Jonathan Moore (Anthony Edwards) is playing a game called "Gotcha" (popular on mid-1980s college campuses as "Assassin" or "Tag"), wherein the players are all assigned a mock "hit" on another player by use of a harmless paintball gun. Moore and his apartment roommate Manolo go on a vacation to Paris, France. After touring some of Paris, in a cafe Moore meets Sasha Banicek (Linda Fiorentino), a Czechoslovakian girl. Eventually, Jonathan has intercourse with Sasha, losing his virginity.
Jonathan decides to leave Manolo (who is heading to Spain) and go with Sasha to West Berlin to spend more time with her. Jonathan believes that he is in love with Sasha. There, Jonathan and Sasha continue to have sex and even go to an Oktoberfest beer gathering. One night, Sasha tells Jonathan that she has to go to East Berlin to pick up a package. One night after arriving in East Berlin, Sasha leaves their hotel room and walks to dark street corner. There, Sasha meets a German man who tells her the location of the pickup of her package. Meanwhile, Sasha was being monitored by a Soviet agent, who was sitting in a car at a distance. During the day, Sasha tells Jonathan that if she gives him a certain message, it means that he has to leave East Berlin immediately. At a cafe, Sasha gives Jonathan a package and says that a strudel is inside. A little later, Sasha tells Jonathan to meet her at the butcher shop near their hotel. All of a sudden, a Soviet agent begins to chase after Sasha. Sasha decides to use Jonathan (who is holding her package) to unknowingly get the package over to West Berlin. Meanwhile, Sasha is taken by the Soviet agent and East German secret police.
Jonathan goes to Checkpoint Charlie to cross the heavily fortified border into West Berlin. At the East German customs search, Jonathan is stripped of his clothes and given a cavity search. Meanwhile, Sasha is stripped and searched for possible espionage evidence. Vlad arrives at the border crossing to search for Jonathan, however Jonathan passes the border safely before he can be captured. Once in West Berlin, Jonathan feels liberated by the Westernized society. In the hotel, Jonathan receives a message from Sasha to meet him at a specified location. Jonathan finds out that his hotel room was broken into and robbed of his traveler's checks. Soviet agents eventually find Jonathan in West Berlin and chase him throughout a public park. Jonathan jumps into a water canal and manages to escape from the Soviets and stumbles upon a German rock group headed for Hamburg, who offer him a ride to the airport.
The rock group successfully get Jonathan to the airport (using full-face makeup to sneak him past a checkpoint) and Jonathan finally arrives in Los Angeles Tom Bradley International Airport and to his apartment. Soon, Vlad and a band of Soviet agents arrive too in Los Angeles. Once home, Jonathan stumbles upon a film canister, which was planted by Sasha. Jonathan visits his parents and tells them what happened in Germany but they cannot believe a word of it and think Jonathan is on drugs. Jonathan decides to call the FBI then the Central Intelligence Agency for help. Jonathan returns to find his apartment broken into and looted.
The CIA officer tells Jonathan to give them the photo film canister. At the Los Angeles headquarters of the CIA, Jonathan spots Sasha who looks like she was working there. Jonathan eventually meets up with Sasha. Sasha admits that she is Cheryl Brewster, a CIA agent, originally from Pittsburgh. Out of nowhere, Vlad and his gang begin to chase Jonathan and Cheryl on the UCLA campus. Jonathan eliminates all the Soviets with a tranquilizer gun which he gets from the campus veterinary sciences building. The Soviets are arrested, the CIA agents thank Jonathan for his (indirect) help in obtaining the film, and Sasha tells him she wants to continue their relationship.
After they part, Jonathan talks to a pretty student who rebuffs him coldly. As she walks away, he aims the tranquilizer pistol and shoots her in the rear.
一个被关20年刑满出狱的颓废女，社会关系完全断裂，被歧视被贴上once a cop killer, always a cop killer 标签。找工作不易，谈恋爱不易….更主要的是自己亲人不相认，受害人家属不放过等等。这部发生在西雅图的故事，果然色调阴郁，气氛压抑，而且因为情节不夸张，故事贴近现实生活，才愈发令人深思，对曾犯过错但已服刑赎罪的人，社会应如何包容接纳？
演技大于剧本，布洛克不愧是公认的影后水平，一个人扛起一整部戏，张弛有度。导演拍得也很规整。
改编自同名英剧，桑德拉布洛克值得一个小金人
看完觉得不错 细想又有种不知道电影想表达什么的感觉
剧本太刻意了，在一众流水线作品中也算不上优质，评分明显过誉。
一般吧，剧情挺平庸的，略商业，布洛克的演技挽回了一点
铺垫的太厚实了，桑德拉的演技日臻完美炉火纯青，飞跃到人生的一个巅峰。竟有点科恩嫂的凌厉。正好把导演的细节演绎的恰到好处，最后那一个拥抱，参透了所有怀疑故事拖沓繁琐的误解，真情无憾，辗转人间……
即便是新人立足社会都足够艰难，更别说犯过罪被打上烙印的前科犯重返社会了。女主演技太好。
同时侧面映射出，重刑犯回归社会之艰难
冲奖套路片，即使这样，桑德拉布洛克感觉今年也没有女主命啊…
桑德拉这真的是向影后冲的啊，演技太到位了，无依之地可以，为什么这个不可以！想到之前燕外之意的一集，原谅的成本是多少呢？愿意原谅的人永远才是最勇敢的。而犯罪呢，如果社会拒绝接纳，那为什么不一开始设下死刑，监狱的意义又在哪里呢？有时间再翻翻福柯
很高兴看到影片这样的解决，被保护的最终还是被保护了。
姐姐作出的牺牲太大了。本以为是一个讲述罪犯再就业的故事。故事中牵扯了受害者、领养者、罪犯三个家庭，其实核心主题就是“宽恕”“生活应该继续”。但支线过多，反而妨害了影片的表达。受害者线情节有些drama，影响了质感；姐妹救赎线不免多此一举，妹妹是否想念姐姐，妹妹是不是犯罪者，妹妹是否知道姐姐的存在，其实无关紧要。
粉身碎骨都护之身后称为之爱。
烂片，本来就不可饶恕，非要饶恕坏人才算政治正确吗？？？？
故事的核心我可以get到。可人设稍微没立好的感觉。角色太多又没有起太大作用。（主要最大的悬念也太好猜了
旧的怨恨难以消解，新的仇恨因此衍生，失去亲人的他选择夺取她亲人的性命来报仇雪恨……谅解两个字看似简单，但要做到却时常并非易事
故事情节的推动稍微有些刻意，特别是为了引出最后高潮而安排的两兄弟整绿帽子的剧情，简直离谱。不过整部电影的节奏确实是很抓人，非常扎实没有任何注水成分。
一个被关20年刑满出狱的颓废女，社会关系完全断裂，被歧视被贴上once a cop killer, always a cop killer 标签。找工作不易，谈恋爱不易….更主要的是自己亲人不相认，受害人家属不放过等等。这部发生在西雅图的故事，果然色调阴郁，气氛压抑，而且因为情节不夸张，故事贴近现实生活，才愈发令人深思，对曾犯过错但已服刑赎罪的人，社会应如何包容接纳？
4.5 仇恨会毁掉一切…法律的罪和真正的罪是不一样的。有罪的是那把上了膛的枪，是爱戏弄人的命运。
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