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.
好看！加菲的脸没有以前帅了 唱歌还不错（但那个黑人大哥和大露背姐姐一开口就发现天赋差距） 但看得出他很努力营造角色形象 不知道是谁的锅 反正就感觉太注重歌舞所以Jon这个角色不太丰满。但还是喜欢 看到他随时随地拿个小本子出来记录有意思的事物 就想他真的是个很热爱生活的人儿啊！出字幕额时候看到了真的Jon顿时感触良多甚至想哭 才35啊！甚至来不及看一遍自己写的《Rent》 为了这个舞台剧梦想他付出了那么那么那么多的心血 于是就想 就让这个倒计时永远停留在tick tick的倒数中 不要boom不要结束 让他一直寻梦下去吧
3.5；R.I.P. STEVEN;林漫威！又是你！gay dudes，什么时候能在出柜之时就认识到自己除了领养，就是这一辈子都别想有孩子了啊？be a fucking adult alright?;需要找一部吉屋出租看一下
片尾的影像比电影更打动人，其实就能说明电影不够成功，加菲在很多方面演的都很好，但对比片尾就很明显的没演出来一个天才应有的形象。不过胜在歌好听，且改编的恰到好处，否则就真的是一部非常平庸的作品
C— / 很好听（字面意义）的电影，至少节奏流畅，拍成加长版MV也好过暴露剧作的平庸。
一个烂俗的故事线配上了不伦不类的迪士尼音乐和尬舞：（
故事有够碎碎念的，加菲演得也好卖力，最后资料视频加1星
最遗憾的是没有看到RENT吧必须说至今还是最爱ICU。
聚光灯一般明亮，像是又感受了一次RENT里的生命力。/在世纪看RENT居然是三年前的事了，想念剧场。
非常无趣，只剩导演的一腔热情。加菲演技有点过誉，他适合演自带圣光的角色，某些时刻很动人，但没有辨识度，和其他形象没什么区别(如《血战钢锯岭》)。歌不好听，因为Larson的那首Come to Your Senses勉强给及格分吧。
也能摆脱诸如像“三十而立”的人生焦虑。
“一瞬间你就死了，一瞬间你就过时了”sad😥and you might have to keep on writing and writing until......
所以只能力求幸福的人生
Movie of the year. A blessing for any theatre/musical lover or idealist. Story about 90s, Broadway, New York, creativity, love, fear, time, and life. Don’t mind Lin’s rusty directing, the emotions are so raw. R.I.P. Stephen Sondheim, who passed away just after the release of this film. We all have, and will always have a song unsung.
有的时候你离梦想真的只差一点点。改编得非常动人，形式不算新颖，但基本上把百老汇能带给人的观感在银幕上呈现出来，好几处的音乐真的能把人的情绪推到极致。加菲真的是多才多艺！
关于创作焦虑的部分还是拍的挺准的，但整体还是太平庸了。
PS：喜欢里面那个头发剃的方方正正的黑人兄弟，唱的挺有感觉的。
最大问题是没有拍出这个人物的特殊性和独特魅力，反而拍的更像一个纯虚构的励志故事，这是最大的遗憾。
唱给女友的那段击中了泪点，推荐给了做音乐编剧和音乐人朋友，身边也不乏这样有趣又有才华的灵魂，都值得好好珍惜，现实世界里因为这些看似不太现实的人的存在才会丰富和精彩。
看他的表演录像比看电影更感动。特别纽约。谁不是一边自嘲着一边执着呢，可惜现在聪明人全都去搞金融和写码了。
11-19 期待多时，看完之前的纪录片之后，对于jonathan也稍微多了一点了解，影片是及格的，因为好像也没有超出预想该有的样子，但是至于该什么样，我也不知道。加菲的演技，还是给我一副之前看过他在社交网络里这样讲话的感觉。最好看的还是最后字幕出来时jonathan本人的影像，演奏音乐的时候的快乐，日常的生活里透露出的乐观和积极
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