在这部蓝色的40道阴影剧情片中,本部围绕年迈的音乐制作人艾伦·詹姆斯（雷普·汤恩 Rip Torn饰）与小他三十岁的俄罗斯女郎劳拉（蒂娜·高逊Dina Korzun饰）展开，讲述他们之间一段阴郁而扭曲的虐心之恋。劳拉为了移民美国而嫁给比自己年长一倍的丈夫艾伦，他们相敬如宾，毫无感情可言。这使得劳拉变得越来越沉闷，甚至对生活失去了热情。直到艾伦关系疏远的儿子迈克尔·詹姆斯（达伦·布罗斯 Darren Burrows饰）的无意造访，突然让劳拉重新找回热恋的感觉。随着劳拉与迈克尔感情的日益升温，劳拉的负罪感越来越强。她觉得自己对不起艾伦，背叛了这个带给她全新生活的男人，而这样的生活她之前连想都不曾想过。面对如此扭曲而奇异的三角关系，劳拉到底该何去何从。
本片荣获2005年圣丹斯电影节最佳剧情片，女主角蒂娜·高逊荣获2006年独立精神奖-最佳女主角提名。
Wealthy music producer Alan James lives with his beautiful Russian girlfriend Laura, thirty years younger than him, whom he met while he was in Russia on business. They have a three-year-old son. Alan is a music legend, having produced black music during the 60's and 70's, the golden era of Memphis Soul. They live an affluent life in a sprawling mansion on the banks of the Mississippi in Memphis, Tennessee. But, although she is comfortable, Laura feels lonely and isolated. Alan has an estranged adult son from a previous marriage, Michael, a literature professor, who is married and lives with his wife in Los Angeles. Michael and his father have a complicated relationship that is marred by disappointment, hampered by jealousy, and fueled by anger. When Michael returns home to Memphis for the first time in many years, although he had at first disapproved of his father's young girlfriend, a painful and dangerous love affair develops between him and Laura, his contemporary. As this forbidden passion deepens in the bedrooms and bars of modern Memphis, Laura comes to an illuminating self-confrontation that will change her soul and her life forever.
Forty Shades Of Blue。还想再看。美国人和俄罗斯人。《蓝色的40道阴影（Forty Shades of Blue）》：傍大款后的出轨【第21届圣丹斯电影节评委会最佳影片】。你看不见满天星光。
