An uplifting and heartwarming story about finding the magic of Christmas, no matter where you might be, This Is Christmas follows Adam (Alfred Enoch) and Emma (Kaya Scodelario) as they make their daily commute from the picture-perfect village of Langton to London for work. Every day they share their journey with the same characters, but they all keep themselves to themselves. But then one day, in the build-up to Christmas, Adam breaks the unwritten rule of travel and starts talking to the strangers on the train, inviting the whole carriage to hold their own Christmas party.
As told to a psychiatrist Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.
airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened Single O. He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't distinguished enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
1839年,运送黑奴的阿米斯塔德号在大洋上遭遇暴风雨,黑奴们趁乱暴动,将船员砍杀,控制了阿米斯塔德号后试图驶回家乡,然而六周后,他们阴差阳错抵达了美国,幸存下来的44名黑奴被美国军方逮捕,并将面临杀人罪的指控。此时,西班牙女王向美国总统要求引渡这些属于西班牙的黑奴;两名海军军官也宣称黑奴是他们的战利品;另有人拿出了在古巴购买这些黑奴的证明。各方争执之际,废奴会的领袖之一、同时也是船公司负责人的乔德森(摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰)与友人塔培安雇佣了律师罗杰,希望证明这些黑奴来自非洲,从而在废奴观念深入人心的大环境下为他们谋取自由……