电影改编自真实事件。家庭的破裂令詹姆斯（卢克·崔德威 Luke Treadaway 饰）遭受了巨大的打击开始自暴自弃，魔偶马戏他染上了毒瘾，魔偶马戏身无分文，成为了一名流连在街头的卖艺者。瓦尔（琼安·弗洛加特 Joanne Froggatt 饰）是负责詹姆斯的戒毒所医生，在她的帮助下，詹姆斯终于有了一个能够遮风挡雨的家，瓦尔坚信詹姆斯能够凭借自己的意志，彻底摆脱毒品的诱惑。某日，一只流浪猫闯进了詹姆斯的家，詹姆斯收养了它，给它取名鲍勃，当詹姆斯离开家走上街头卖艺的时候，鲍勃跟在他的身边寸步不离。很快，这一人一猫的组合便吸引了过路人的注意， 詹姆斯的经济状况因此得到了巨大的改善，与此同时，詹姆斯结识了住在隔壁的女子贝拉（鲁塔·盖德敏塔斯 Ruta Gedmintas 饰），在贝拉的身上，詹姆斯重新燃起了对爱的渴望。
李萍
回复 :This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs.This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal.The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society.The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
薛岳
回复 :《深情约定》主要讲述了由廖智饰演的青年女教师刘一在乡村支教期间，面对农村孩子们纯净和求知的眼神、面对他们发自内心的毫无杂念的善良，不断的为这些可爱的孩子们改变着自己的人生规划，不断在自我纠结和挣扎中做选择，并最终听从了自己内心的声音，做了让自己心生宁静的选择。
罗琳娜麦肯妮特
回复 :从来没有一个小人物，像马建国一样，是跟着共和国一起成长起来的。这部电影极为接地气，好玩、诙谐、有趣，还会让你落泪，讲述北京的故事。马建国是49年10月1号出生。他家世代做灯笼，是地地道道的手艺人。当时，他并不喜欢这门手艺，总想着其他伟大的理想。他像很多20、30岁的人，经历过年轻人的打架、与父母产生矛盾，暗恋一个善良女子，一门心思考大学。经过了种种磨难之后，马建国最终喜欢上了老灯笼这门手艺。马建国代表老一辈，正直刚强，坚守着手工灯笼的传统手艺，也秉持着传统文化的高尚品格。他的孙子马五六作为年轻一代，从排斥不理解到渐渐领悟认可，实现了人生中重要的一次蜕变。祖孙俩的关系也越发融洽深入。
