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.
理想和灯塔常有，但成为灯塔的理想不常有。民主和理性常有，但理性的民主不常有。体制和进步常有，但体制的进步不常有。
对话没有含金量，较量不精彩，制作水平中下，剧情拖沓。
What's your price？
作为庭审片，主要矛盾冲突不是来自检方和辩方，而且法官和辩方自身内部的冲突。开篇用了简练的手法，快速过镜每个人都是和平手段而去，以及闪过的新闻，都在表明导演给出的答案，而黑人的用处，无非是表现法官的歧视与不公，除了一次探监外，几乎没人任何法院以外的镜头。即使给出了是以政治目的审判，但并没有表现出检方任何压迫和针锋相对，而是法官的不公，一个不公正的判决，无异于污染了水源，大概导演想表达的，也就是法官是当下的美国。但是相反的，对辩方的反应以及两次闪回的镜头，却让我并没有感觉出他们没有一点的无罪。七君子，不过是两三个人的戏。
有民事诉讼，有刑事诉讼，这部片拍的是政治诉讼。片长两个小时出头的庭审片，艾伦索金拍得比很多片长一个半小时塞满打斗追逐枪战conspiracy 的惊悚片都精彩。我不明白大家所说的匠气是什么，我觉得这部片拍得太精致紧凑太有戏剧张力了，现实世界很难是这样的。尽管如此，仍是我今年以来看过最好的片。我喜欢这样多元的社会，希望生活在这样的社会，尽管这样的想法已经不合时宜。
群像刻画，法庭交锋，雄浑稳健，精彩纷呈。不愧是律师之子，艾伦·索金重拾最擅长的法庭题材，比92版《好人寥寥》的冲击更甚，而且这回自编自导，不假他人之手，还原半个世纪前的时代风云对于今日美利坚犹有深意。且看颁奖季能否获青睐，得之老骥伏枥，不得也不会影响本片跻身其最佳作品行列。
自由和权利之间的抗争是个永远不会结束的死循环。
瞧瞧人家的主旋律电影The whole worldis watching！
索金比《白宫风云》和《新闻编辑室》表现得更左更偏激，半个月后川普是否还能连任。
想给Abbie这种hot hippies抓虱子
太久没看柯南了，看评分这么高慕名来看，整体破案真相可谓令人挠破头都想不到，因为太扯了...悬念制造的还是挺好的，果然最后不扯的话逻辑无法圆下来。出场人物众多，补充了很多主线上的伏笔。隔了快十年没看，没想到新一和小兰才亲上，哈哈，也真是唏嘘，满脑子都是自己当初看柯南时的悸动。
这种片我觉得商业元素很足，冲突、快节奏、背景丰富、反讽黑色幽默，毫无困意看完2小时长篇，题材还是这种历史政治事件。
怎么说呢？终于官宣在一起了，亲个嘴都要等那么久，更何况还没亲到，气人！
囧瑟夫饰演的公诉人也站在控方立场表现出了最大的公正和敬意
小雀斑最后陈述的时候我眼泪一下就流出来了，还是那个Aaron Sorkin,那个心中充满理想主义的艾伦索金。不旺我用The Newsroom做屏保这么多年。比茉莉牌局导演视角更成熟，纯文本的庭审记录为基础，也更能发挥他的优势/世事时代自有评论
这是典型的好莱坞年度左翼电影。这几年几乎每年都有这样一部左翼政治理念的电影，例如聚焦、华盛顿邮报。拍摄手法都是纪实冷峻、都是大牌云集，明显不为了票房就冲着各类奖项的政治宣言，像是一个每年必做的功课。
群戏比较出彩 对话痨厌烦者和对美国60上世纪60年代末的民权运动不了解的观众不是很友好 总之对于当下美国的现实 算是很应景的一部电影了
这法官真是asshole，结尾念名单集体起立有点效仿死亡诗社的意思
当七君子的形象取代了严肃的议题，就无所谓对错了，历史总是这样，当真相借由更易传播的载体，往往稀释甚至转移了真正的焦点，但如果没有更大众的视角，普通人不会对没有生活重要的事分散注意，就像片中说的，一些人活在50年代，一些人活在60年代。我不喜欢群众运动的主要原因在于，因为容易激化和被引导，到最后都是形式和手段变成了主角。
The struggle was real.
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