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.
漂亮的游泳池 source of inspiration！
一出关于梦想与坚持的宣言，一封写给剧院和所有行业人的情书。并非功成名就的风光回望，却是更为后人熟知的错过和遗憾；他在生前没有真正知道自己的成功，失败与潦倒注解了与之后种种成就的刺眼反差。但电影中的世界不曾因为这份悲剧般的命中注定而变得灰色- -却更像始终不断的能量宣泄：疯狂的、热闹的、天真的。随便一截图就能抓到大牌客串的阵容足够让人回看；而有了《天使在美国》的试炼，加菲也仿佛驾轻就熟自己的演绎。Thank you, Jonathan Larson.
缺乏记忆点的单薄且口水的音乐，唱毕就忘；为了配合剧情画面精心写就的歌词，无法触动或共鸣，俏皮但审美疲劳；除了口述的1990和迈克尔关于同志艰难处境的台词外，再无其他关于90年代感的描述和氛围打造。
“用爱发电意难平”，创作大概率是这个世界上性价比最低的事情。没有所谓的一分耕耘一分收获。你以为创新是魅力四射的事情——但其实人们，或是说商业眼光，从来比你想象中要守旧传统。
天分、努力还有运气，尤其是运气，才造就了全世界也挑不出十位的大师。PS：奥斯卡瞎了眼，谢谢
宽街剧粉必看。突然理解为什么戏剧界那么多写自己生活的剧作了，因为正如经纪人大姐所说，作为独立创作者，确实只有写自己的生活才最容易动人。
音乐及演唱是还不错的，接地气，然而电影载体挺不适合这种形式手法的，结构上不断间离，观众不断出戏，没法持续投入情境，另外剧情也是美式套路，梦想现实，爱情友情，无甚新意，还被大段的音乐冲散，老实说，直接编成舞台音乐剧大概效果好得多
我看到评论里都在爆哭。所以我知道了，我是铁石心肠。
一流作家的二流作品，可以想象当年David Auburn重写本剧时调整故事线的难度，三个主角的视角切换里若隐若现的Sondheim才是整个故事的芯，这个剧是属于Larson的Sunday in the Park with George！一定好好赚钱，然后去finance我表达欲爆炸的朋友们！
电影剧情就是套路励志片嘛，歌曲一般吧，算不上多好听。
噢，还有一句台词得送给我自己。
从出生开始，我们就被年龄催促鞭打着向前，
“Stop the noise, I can’t hear myself die”
格外标准又精彩的传记歌舞片，最令人感动的是，当你踌躇满志用十年青春去塑造了一部没人投资的音乐剧，现实却提醒你只有不断向前才有可能成功，当你的成果无人问津，挫败和失落，怀疑和退缩时，却也只有不断向前，人生就是这样，看到别人的成功和自己的位置，放弃自己的梦想却心有不甘，在生命的倒数时刻中，你也只有不断向前。美术，布景和原声都令人印象深刻，加菲这次又贡献了影帝级别的演技，作为年度音乐大戏，跨年时候观看真是一种很有意义的享受
前半截有点碎，后半截有点拖。但是老夫人都走了（“不要哭，我都听不见我自己死。”），这会不会是最后一次看到唐家屯呢……
电影还行吧。但乔纳森的经历更让我触动，他在《吉屋出租》开演之前就去世了，这让他成为一位最纯粹的艺术家和理想主义者。
喜欢迈克那条线
几多欢喜，几多愁。——致永恒的伯爵夫人维奥莱特
传记加歌舞电影更是容易产生浓厚的割裂感，大概更适合舞台，适合突破第四面墙来面对面的共鸣
太感动了，歌好听，情绪也很饱满，加菲尔德值得一个奥斯卡影帝提名！另外，他永远是最好的蜘蛛侠。
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