迈克(保罗·吉亚玛提 Paul Giamatti 饰)是一名小镇律师,在帮一位老年痴呆症老头里奥(波特·杨 Burt Young 饰)打监护权官司时,阴差阳错自己成了里奥的监护人。光照顾老头还不够,里奥的外孙凯尔(阿历克斯·夏夫尔 Alex Shaffer 饰)又不期而 至,他因为和吸毒的母亲不和来投靠外公,迈克一家只好收留他,并安排他到附近高中念书。迈克同时还兼任该所高中摔跤队教练,很快发现凯尔是个很有天赋的摔跤手。局面似乎很“双赢”,里奥和凯尔得到生活上的照顾,迈克的队伍里多了个主力,每个月还有1500元监护收入补贴家用。
但平衡因为凯尔母亲辛迪(梅兰妮·林斯基 Melanie Lynskey 饰)到来而打破,她想夺回里奥的监护权,母亲来了,凯尔也没理由再和迈克一家生活在一起,但只有凯尔明白,他母亲对他和祖父丝毫没有关爱,一切目的只是祖父的钱…
Fleeing from their violent father, siblings Lucía and Adrián take refuge in a remote mansion. With the help of a hidden micro-camera on a cat, Lucía uncovers a terrifying secret: their neighbors are part of a criminal network that kidnaps teenage girls to make snuff films, and they intend to get rid of the siblings. As Lucía fights to protect her brother, she must face a dark family curse that follows them into their newfound sanctuary.
In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk. But compelled, he was. He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked an...
Calvin Trask lives in a dead end Arctic town on the fringes of society, until mysterious stranger Lucas Wade arrives, turning his solitary life upside down. Calvin's curiosity gets the better of him and is quickly pulled into Lucas' dangerous world. As secrets slowly unravel, Calvin realises just what kind of jeopardy he's put himself in, a place where murder and betrayal are a...
In 2013, an Australian man a few months shy of turning 60 decided to walk the Camino de Santiago – an 800km pilgrimage trail across the top of Spain. He had no known religion, and absolutely no idea why he felt so deeply compelled to do this torturous walk.
But compelled, he was.
He completed the walk, battling a “triumvirate of pain” - a knee that he later discovered lacked any meaningful cartilage, a blister the sight of which would make a grown man weep, and shin-soreness that felt like his lower limb had been split with a mountain axe wielded by a demented troll.
Arriving at the end of the Camino, the majestic cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, he expected an epiphany – an answer to the question he’d been asking himself every day: Why am I doing this?
But no answer came.
So when he got home he wrote a book, hoping the answer would reveal itself in his scribblings. The result was The Way, My Way, a humourous and self-deprecating book that many consider the best memoir ever written on walking the Camino.
The book has now been made into a film, and it’s an extraordinary account of a man at a pivotal point in his life, searching for meaning and finding himself undergoing a fundamental transformation so profound that he now divides his life into “Before the Camino” and “After the Camino.”
It’s a story particular to one man, yet of appeal to anyone seeking a greater meaning from life.