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.
明明是个爽文故事，可情节拍的不咸不淡。不过挺温暖的。
无法避免地想起老白的毒师帝国刚起步时财源滚滚的感觉…
退休后失去目标的小镇数学家通过彩票漏洞带领全镇人致富创业的故事，中规中矩的演技和剧本把一个可以更精彩的故事讲的平平无奇，老白的选角仿佛是通过大数据算出来最合适的主演，反派大学生线过于愚蠢了些。。。。
名校那叫自私吗？不自私发财的方法都写在刑法里了。
玩具总动员电影的衍生电影系列，巴斯光年一直都是人气很高的角色，前传和背景故事塑造起来很值得看；开头前二十分钟惊叹于皮克斯精致的画面和宇宙飞船的戏份，但是剧情从危机出现就逐渐老套；但是作为玩具总动员粉丝还是值得一看的，揭示大反派zurg的真实身份，另外猫猫机器人真的很可爱。本片当中的LGBT元素，导致本片无法在大陆上映……
感谢老白和贝宁把这个故事拍的这么温馨轻松，让人完全忘记了彩票是什么。有意思的是现实中是MIT的group，电影里变成了Harvard…
Anais横冲直撞，破坏力十足；她自我、责任感缺失；干啥啥不行，作精第一名，是当代废柴文青的集大成者。可讽刺的就在于，最后还是她赢。（二刷更喜欢了
挺好看的，老白这样挣得也不少啊，干嘛还去拼老命做毒师呢。。。
感觉这部电影还行吧，老白和贝宁演的让我们这些观众看了感觉比较温馨，总有一种轻松而舒适的感觉。
#Cinemania2021# 不知道为什么，观影过程中禁不住和The Worst Person In the World反复比较，再次确认女性导演approach类似的议题时果然态度和视角要自洽的多。Anaïs 的care-free mentality是这个时代最理想的urban feminist状态，几套look也很好capture了那个夏天的魅力。本来以为只是夏日的fling（Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi的气质太好了），没想到最后热情又被再次点燃，即使我们知道夏日总会过去，但那想要触到却又收回的动作和亲吻时微微闭上的眼眸却永远不会说谎。
赚了2700万还能如此的淡定，他的黄金时代才刚刚开始。
我以为是年龄大了所以冷漠了，所以看皮克斯动画没有共鸣，翻了一下评论好像是电影本身没有达到期待的水平
从化学转专业到数学的老白，果然一退休就想着搞钱，真是我辈楷模。回到电影，老白和家人以及小镇居民的团结，特别是考虑风险后决定解散后的被理解，老白是站在集体利益思考问题的；相对比名校天才则是以剥削者空手套白狼的自私自大，两位找到bug的命运和结局也是情理之中，至于彩票这个零和游戏，从开始就是不对等的概率赢人性的定局，我们应当回避小概率事件多用力在大概率事件上。
开头的岁月变迁真是看的泪目，后面就很普通了。美国动画的风格雷同，表现力受限。如果像日本动画，即使剧情一般，但出色的美术风格同样能扳回一城。而且如此伤感的时光主题，我想如果是新海诚或者其他日本动漫，大概可以写意得更美更动人吧。
2700万刀啊啧啧啧就喜欢看聪明人玩聪明人
2022.7.24周日 一刷 好 很好 非常好
名校那叫自私吗？不自私发财的方法都写在刑法里了。
本片改编自杰森·法冈在《赫芬顿邮报》发表的文章 ，讲述了一桩真实故事：退休的杰瑞·塞尔比发现了马萨诸塞州彩票中的一个数学漏洞，在妻子玛吉的帮助下，赢得了2700万美元。他们用这笔钱振兴了自己的密歇根小镇。
不好看，也就是给孩子看个热闹吧，大人可以选择不看了
emmmm……可以理解为是一部讲解巴斯光年这款玩具的原型由来的讲解动画，里面的猫咪机器人玩偶是真的可可爱爱。
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