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故事发生在一九三九年的夏天,克里姆(沃尔特·皮金 Walter Pidgeon 饰)和妻子米尼佛夫人(葛丽亚·嘉逊 Greer Garson 饰)住在英国郊外,两人结婚多年,生了三个孩子,生活幸福美满。克里姆的大儿子韦恩(理查德·内伊 Richard Ney 饰)爱上了花会创办人的孙女贝尔(特雷莎·怀特 Teresa Wright 饰),情投意合的两人很快走到了一起。战争开始了,韦恩想要为国效忠,赶往了前线,而克里姆和米尼佛夫人则在后方支援。某日,一名德国飞行员受伤闯入了米尼佛夫人的后花园,米尼佛夫人凭借着自己的勇敢与智慧协助警察成功将其捉拿。米尼佛夫人和贝尔小姐在送韦恩前往驻地的途中遭遇了空袭,一时间凶多吉少。
Nearly murdered as a child by her mother, a woman (Katrina Law) returns to the house where her mom went mad.
After breaking out of a rehabilitation zoo, Frankie, a squirrel with all the angles, returns to his forest. He learns from his dim-witted best friend, Cody, a porcupine and street-con, that while he was in lock-up, the entire forest was picked clean by The A.C.O.R.N.S. Institute (Alternative Cosmetic Oils for Regenerative Natural Skin-care). No acorn was left behind. With winter just around the corner, it's a potentially devastating blow to all forest critters. So, Frankie has no choice but to bust into the brand new, state-of-the-art, rodent-proof A.C.O.R.N.S. Processing Plant and take back all of the acorns! Though a seemingly impossible heist, success would not only save the lives of his forest friends, but it would also give Frankie a chance to win back the love of his life, Lola, a local "show squirrel." Sadly, Lola has been burnt by too many of Frankie's false promises in the past. With the support of Frankie's old mentor, Mr. Bellwood, a wealthy badger, Frankie and Cody assemble a team of top notch "crackers" from all over the forest, including: a bat named Fly Boy, a top notch munitions expert; Raitch, a computer hacking albino snake, who never allows her lack of appendages to get in the way; Edsy a tiny "family frog," whose ability to freeze himself solid for days on end without harm is invaluable; a germophobic French rat named Liam, who can collapse his skeleton to get into any space; Chinese father-daughter pangolins named Pango and Lin, the best diggers in the forest; and Bellwood's hedgehog butler, Oscar who knows how to get his hands on anything the crew needs. With winter knocking at their door, Frankie and his crew have only three days to prepare and execute this unprecedented heist. When they learn that the processing of their forest's acorns has been pushed up a day, Lola's refusal to participate leaves Frankie and his crew one critter short. With everything on the line, Frankie and his crew of Animal Crackerz set out to pull off the biggest heist in animal history!
本片以主人公大卫·布莱恩架车游历美国得克萨斯州过程中所见所闻为主线,透过一个个具有鲜明个性的小人物及发生在他们身上的故事,展示了当地人对于生活和爱情的独特理解。该片值得称道的是将歌舞与写实完美结合,大量旋律优美的乡村民谣,歌曲成为片中最耀眼的亮点,也是导演大卫·布莱恩对电影艺术的创新之举,是一次成功的探索。