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.
同样是关注母女情感的影片，比起矫揉造作、情感狗血的《瀑布》明显是要好很多的。至少本片所呈现的情感是真诚的、写实的、有基底的，而非虚伪的、装腔作势的、自以为是的那种做作姿态。有时候放下过分想要彰显自身才能的各种怪心思，单纯地沉浸入故事本身，反而能创作出更真诚、更经典的影片。
和《瀑布》讲实话不太一样，这片子是个单纯的家庭题材。主打怀旧牌（润美国、音乐、拨号上网、体罚、非典）的同时，电影在家庭争吵的细节上做的还不错，后半段的核心悬疑（到底阳性不阳性）设置的也是及格的。主要差在电影感的东西极少，另外要论家长里短的争吵，老一辈大陆电视剧拍的也很多，相比之下这部电影完全没有特别的地方…可看可不看吧。
3.5接近四星 没有解决根本问题 有一些共通的场景情境有点触动吧 ，ps 中国妈妈的囊肿结节都是被孩子气出来的
可能因为倾诉欲太强烈了感觉故事其实讲得有点粗糙，但真的很好哭，好几个家人相处的地方看得胃痛，和《别告诉她》如果对照着看可能还蛮有意思的
故事和立意都太陈旧了。美国梦的破碎杨德昌1985年的《青梅竹马》就已经说尽了。凑疫情也十分牵强，没带来什么思考。
这种片子看多了，就像看多了陈凯歌张艺谋起家的类型片一样：压抑晦涩，充满阴霾。为什么华人的家庭片大都这种格调？让人选择的话，有多少人不会首先选择那种第一次见面就能嘿咻的生活方式？人生本已不易，内心多有伤势，这种泛泛的故事，真的只能唤起心中的无奈。而且，影片的这种结尾，在华人影片里也是烂大街了，或许这种形式是泊来的，但“微微一笑泯恩仇，轻轻一转待明天”的意境，并不是这么简单就能表现出来的。不需要结果…别指望明天…过好当下…这才更能让人心静。
剧本很扎实，并非矛盾转和谐的两段式结构，而是有着层层起伏，像海上的浪一样，而吹动这些风浪的是内外压力的挤压，美国梦的破碎、教育的转向、死亡的威胁、瘟疫的袭扰，每个人都自身难保，糟糕的情绪互相传递，气氛相当压抑。
人是慢慢学着长大的。
好看。覺得劇本和表演都非常扎實得讓人珍貴，也很難得。作為幾乎同齡人，看到反叛心理的姐姐真的很有帶入感。03年的氣息撲面而來。最喜歡的細節是爸爸在樓梯間哭時手上拿著的那個鑰匙扣
我们总对于「更好」抱持着无穷的执念，其实殊不知这一刻的彼此已经是「最好」的存在。
No.7 除了稍微用力刻意了一点外，都很好了，特别是小孩子的英文，最后的反高潮处理也很高级，林嘉欣是真漂亮。
期待已久，但比想象中要失望一些。依然是母女和解的主题，《瀑布》要比这步无论在故事上还是表达上都更有意思一些。
大陆的《小伟》+新加坡的《爸妈不在家》。去年到现在第一部让我有些感动到泪目的片子，某些片段与我的生活重叠了，这也是我们这边很少看到的吧。但整体比较平庸温和，结局还行，有点赶。
整体拍的中规中矩，真正的亮点在表演，林嘉欣真是不错，大女儿也演的很好。
*梁芳安与梁芳仪之间的关系有点像我和我妹，可能多多少少会觉得父母双方或者一方会更偏爱妹妹，然后有时候觉得她很烦，两个人会告状会吵架，但没过一会妹妹又会成为姐姐的跟屁虫…梁芳安喊的姐姐就像是在喊我
得分：7
3.22 三星半。
导演处女作 原来拖堂不只是内地的专属 整体感觉比瀑布精彩 戏剧冲突也更强烈 网吧里的歌是周董的安静
同样是刻画母女关系，这部好过《瀑布》。母女二人演得都极好。预定2022年观影最佳之一。
家庭矛盾，年龄代购，文化差异，这些是台湾电影里最常见的主题，电影只点到为止，并未展开，缺少一针见血直击要害的点。
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