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　　Troubled by bouts of sleepwalking and disturbing nightmares, graduate student Sarah Foster goes to her university sleep research center for help. But when she wakes up after her first night of being monitored, the world she lives in seem…

美国亿万富翁 Glenn Stearns 接受挑战，真实再现如何从贫穷汉到价值百万公司的总裁。Glenn 在节目中隐去自己的姓氏，用仅有的 100 美元和一辆卡车开始，在 90 天的时间完成任务。

James Joyce led an eventful and turbulent life. From the beginning, he was something of an outsider. His childhood was impoverished and chaotic. Nonetheless, his alcoholic father ensured that he was educated at Ireland's elite schools. From an early age, Joyce revealed an impulse to rebel against social conventions. He…

紅極一時的作家羅素，終究面臨了文思枯竭的窘況，妻子精神異常的妹妹更讓他頭痛不已，而身懷六甲的妻子卻在這時失足跌落樓梯，帶著尚未出世的孩子香消玉殞；重重打擊之下，羅素的人生一片黑暗。他的多年老友大衛於是建議他去找曾經的出軌對象露西，希望重燃羅素對生命與創作的熱情──亡妻的魂魄卻因為得知這不堪的真相遺留人間，纏上了曾經深情…