老人與貓

孤寡老人哈里和他心愛的貓湯託相依為命，由於政府徵用土地，哈里只得帶着老貓到他兒子伯特家去住。伯特忍受不了父親的嘮叨，要他保持沉默，哈里對這種要求無法忍受，遂決定芝加哥去找女兒雪莉。哈里專門為湯託買了一輛舊車，因為公共交通工具都不允許帶動物。路上，他認識了一個叫辛格的小夥子，兩人結伴而行。到了芝加哥，哈里見到了孫子諾曼，便又帶着諾曼和辛格到好萊塢，他的另一個兒子埃迪在那裏。很快，哈里又感到了不滿，於是他離開了埃迪家，轉道去聖莫尼卡。途中，老貓湯託老死了，孤獨的哈里渴望着能同一個同樣愛貓的獨身老婦度過餘生。 ^[1] 

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導演保羅·馬祖斯基以現實生活中所認識或接觸過的有着相似命運的人為原型創作了這部感人至深的影片，以一個孤獨老人顛沛流離、有家難回的悲慘命運揭示了美國當代社會中存在的一個尖鋭問題：即如何對待老人，特別是孤寡老人的問題，具有深刻的現實意義。男主人公的扮演者阿特·卡尼具有一流演員的智慧和才幹，他不負重託，以出色的演技獲得第47屆（1974）奧斯卡最佳男主角金像獎的桂冠。保羅·馬祖斯基也憑着這部備受好評的片子而進入了名牌大導演的行列。

Harry:You never really feel somebody's suffering; you only feel their death.

Shirley:I like you, Norman.

Norman:I like you, too, Aunt Shirley. But I think you're a bitch.

Harry:How old are you?

Ginger:16.

Harry:I guess I don't know much about being 16 these days.

Ginger:Neither do I.

Burt Coombes Jr.:I know you think you're really far out. You smoke a couple of joints, and you think you're into something, right? No... hey, I know. I mean, I took 32 trips, you ninny. Pure stuff. Pure rainbow! I had more coke stuffed up this nose than you could breathe air. I was into heavy Tibetan meditation for two years, you jimbo!

Harry:You're not very tolerant, Junior.

Burt Coombes Jr.:The heaviest thing I can do for him is to [shouts]

Burt Coombes Jr.:wake him up!

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