剧情介绍
莫塞斯（瑞安·奥尼尔 Ryan O'Neal 饰）并不是一个本分的商人，即使干的是推销圣经的行当，也并不能阻止他使用一些上不了台面的手段。一场车祸夺取了莫塞斯的情人的性命，情人留下的一个小女儿埃迪（塔图姆·奥尼尔 Tatum O'Neal 饰）成了莫塞斯的负担。在向肇事者要得200美元后，莫塞斯决定将埃迪送往她的姨妈家去。 在路上，埃迪展现了她天才般的口才和推销才能，让莫塞斯大赚了一笔，这对假父女之间也产生了真感情。然而，得意忘形的两人不慎掉入了一个圈套之中。一番波折之后，有惊无险的二人终于抵达了终点，但看着即将离自己而去的埃迪，一种名叫“不舍”的情感充满了莫塞斯的内心。Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era Midwestern region of the United States. As the movie opens, we see a small group of mourners clustered at a graveside. Among the mourners is Addie, the dead woman's small daughter. Moses Pray -- ostensibly of the "Kansas Bible Company" -- approaches the group, as the service concludes, and two of the elderly women remark that the child bears some resemblance to him and asks if he might be related. "If ever a child needed kin, it's now," one lady says. With no knowledge of who her father is, Addie's only haven is her Aunt's home in St. Joseph, Missouri. Having identified himself as a "traveling man spreading the Lord's gospel in these troubled times," "Mose" is prevailed upon to deliver the helpless child to her Aunt since he's going that way, anyway. Addie, wise beyond her years, soon discovers that Mose is little more than a scam artist traveling from town to town delivering unordered Bibles and charging exorbitant prices to recently widowed women whom he identifies through the obituary columns of local papers. Soon, Addie and Mose become a team, traveling from town to town, making money in every dishonest way imaginable, and looking for the ultimate score. The colorful characters they meet along the way make the film all the more interesting. Paramount among these is "Miss Trixie Delight," an exotic dancer who Mose rescues from a traveling carnival and her minion, Imogene. The film is peppered with "regional" dialog. Perhaps one of the most memorable lines of the movie is uttered when Mose is forced to wrestle a backwoodsman in order to trade his new car for the hillbilly's battered old truck. "Make him say calf-rope, Leroy!" one of the observers calls out.