下流与智慧

　　这部以圣诞节为主题的家庭电影将讲述一个名叫帕特·基利的爱尔兰年轻人移民美国的故事，他发现自己卷入了一场愈演愈烈的恶作剧旋风，从纽约到圣达菲。

1973年美国康涅狄格州，感恩节快要到来，一场冰风暴也即将到来。平凡乏味的家庭生活使中年夫妻厌倦，丈夫本•胡德（凯文•克莱恩饰）一直在引诱邻居珍妮特•哈珀，而妻子（琼•艾伦饰）对丈夫的谎言也早已不耐烦了。儿子保罗（托比•马奎尔饰）迷恋着学校里最有人缘的那位女生。女儿温迪（克里斯蒂娜•里奇）兴趣于电视里的水门事件听证会。                                                                      　　冰风暴的夜晚，夫妻两个去朋友家参加一个鸡尾酒会，鸡尾酒会的一个重要内容是进行换房间钥匙的游戏。在酒会结束后，每个妻子都可以和别家男人结成新欢。而他们儿子则赶去面对一场诱惑与考验，女儿正陶醉在同邻家男孩子的性游戏中……

　　一个大学教授（茱莉亚·罗伯茨 饰）发现她有一个学生（阿尤·艾德维利 饰）可能被另一个教授（安德鲁·加菲尔德 饰）骚扰了，但是因为不晓得究竟谁说的是实话，整个学院立刻陷入一团混沌。

　　Malvís (Alfredo Landa) is sick of working like crazy for nothing. He'd rather become a bandit, that's much better, he's gonna be the fearful Fendetestas! He'll spread panic in the woods of his region. But there's a little problem: there aren't much people living in his region, everyone knows everyone and everyone is so poor, so is gonna be difficult that someone takes Malvís/Fendetestas too seriously.　　This is a magic history, so funny, and full of situations that will make you laugh. It's also full of characters that belong to the Spanish idiosyncrasy: the strict priest, the Guardia Civil, the old devout women, the village idiot... there's even a lost soul wandering around the woods.　　The great Alfredo Landa heads a cast that gathered together the best two generations of Spanish scene: from Fernando Rey to Encarna Paso, from Manuel Alexandre to María Isbert... A cast like that would be just unthinkable nowadays. "El Bosque Animado" was the first movie of José Luis Cuerda's trilogy of rural comedies (after this one he made the surreal "Amanece Que No Es Poco", and "Así En El Cielo Como En La Tierra". Those are movies so personal that stress the Spanish culture. The young directors should take note of films like "El Bosque Animado", instead of trying to be the new "enfant terrible" and imitating US worst cinema.