教授格雷迪(迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰)曾经被尊称为“奇迹小子”,因为他7年前出版的小说如此优秀,在文坛上轰动一时。这表面看来是一件好事,却让格雷迪背上了沉重的思想包袱,他害怕自己的新作品落差太大,于是一直把它压在箱底,不敢发表。如今,妻子已经离他而去,他有一个情人萨拉(弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德 Frances McDormand 饰)。这个情人,是他的校长,同时也是上司的妻子。
格雷迪怎么也没想到,一把年纪了,倒霉事才陆续朝他招手。萨拉告诉他肚里怀上了他的骨肉。更糟糕的是他被恶狗所咬,不过也因此和学生詹姆斯(托比·马奎尔 Tobey Maguire 饰)开始一段感情真挚的忘年交。在詹姆斯身上,格雷迪发现了可贵的文学潜质。另一方面,编辑克莱特里(小罗伯特·唐尼 Robert Downey Jr. 饰)催命鬼似的向格雷迪催稿。众多事情使格雷迪的生活就像六国大封相。他该如何厘清头绪,从乱麻中重新整理下人生呢?
Following the crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s involvement in Syria, the world is closer to super power confrontation than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Now a committee of senior former British military and diplomatic figures comes together to war game a hypothetical ‘hot war’ in Eastern Europe, including the unthinkable - nuclear confrontation.
The War Room faces a scenario that has haunted western strategists since civil war broke out in Ukraine: potential Russian military involvement in the Baltic States of Latvia and Estonia. Like Ukraine these countries have sizable Russian speaking minorities, but unlike Ukraine they are members of NATO, whose founding treaty states that an attack on one ally is an attack on all of them. Because of this, western analysts regularly war game a situation where Russia seeks to exploit ethnic tensions in the Baltic and test the strength of the NATO Alliance.
Andrea had just turned fifteen when he decided to take his life. He seemed to be a happy teenager, with good grades at school and an excellent relationship with his parents. There seemed to be no explanation for what he did, until his mother accessed his Facebook profile and reconstructed the terrifying bullying and cyberbullying her son was going through at school.