Made for only $350,000 in 1985 when no one wanted to fund or star in a movie about lesbians, Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian love story, and its success paved the way for the proliferation of lesbian films we enjoy today.
Directed by Donna Deitch and set in 1950's Reno, Nevada, Desert Hearts tells the story of a 35-year-old uptight female professor Vivian (Helen Shaver) who comes to town to file for divorce and ends up falling in love with a free-spirited 25-year-old casino worker Cay (Patricia Charbonneau).
Although Vivian left her husband because she had "drowned in still waters," she is not quite prepared for the tidal wave-effect Cay has on her life. As Vivian herself admits, her life is all about "order," and her image of herself as a scholar and a professional, upstanding woman does not include a relationship with a woman. Cay, meanwhile, is living at home with her stepmother, Frances (Audra Lindley) while she waits to meet someone who "counts"--and she almost immediately recognizes that Vivian is that someone.
Both women struggle with conflicting desires and a sense of obligation to others, and are ultimately drawn together not just because of their attraction to each other, but because each woman offers the other something she has been unable to find on her own.。看似普通的这一天,就从清晨开始,卓越照例是雷打不动的晨跑,跑着跑着,身后传来喘气如牛的呼吸和沉重的脚步声,他回头一看,哎唷,这不是大学师妹兼朋友许迟迟吗,她不是宅女吗,不是运动白痴吗,怎么也出来跑步了?许迟迟累得整话也说不出一句,冒着窒息的风险终于吐露明白:“真巧啊,其实我平时也有锻炼的,没想到能碰上师兄你,以后就每天跟你跑吧……”。卓越对迟迟还是略有了解的,他一低身,侧头就贴上了许迟迟的胸口:“不对,许迟迟,你心跳140以上了,声音大得跟过火车似的,平时锻炼过?”迟迟当然是瞎说的,也当然没什么所谓的偶遇巧合,她真就是早有预谋的、故意的、掐准了时间出现在此时此地的!而且,她的背后,还有一堆黑手在出谋划策,卓越被算计了。
事情要从昨天晚上说起……卓越跟他的第7个女朋友大吵一架后,终于狠心分手,女友收拾好东西拖着行李箱就搬出了卓越的公寓。卓越心情低落,打电话叫好友大雄出来喝酒聊天,大雄自然要向女友欧阳绿果请假,欧阳绿果正是迟迟的好闺蜜,马上把这个消息通知了暗恋卓越八年的许迟迟:这是你男神感情生活里唯一的一次“空窗期”啊,千载难逢,不抓紧利用,简直就是犯罪,就是对不起你许迟迟二十六年的生命。于是乎,他们就拟定了一个24小时搞定男神的作战计划……。