In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..
埃琳•布罗克维奇(朱莉娅•罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)是倒霉鬼中的典型。她结过两次婚,但每次婚姻都没有给她带来幸福,反而令她成了一个拖着三个孩子的单身母亲。倒霉的她在遭到一场交通事故后,连志在必得的赔偿官司到最后都输掉了。 为她辩护的律师埃德(阿尔伯特•芬尼 Albert Finney 饰)半是同情埃琳半是因为帮她打输了官司心感内疚,收留了埃琳在他的律师楼里打杂。埃琳的生活算是有了一点保障。在调查一单污水申诉案时,埃琳偶然发现了污水中含剧毒物质,而供水公司确对此敷衍了事。弱女子埃琳决定用她柔弱的肩膀担负起为受污染的数百名居民讨回公道的重担!
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.
女儿杰茜(丝凯·麦柯·巴楚沙 Skye McCole Bartusiak 饰)被绑架的的消息让纳森(迈克尔·道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰)一家陷入了空前的危机,绑匪斯科特(肖恩·宾 Sean Bean 饰)提出的要求十分奇怪,他们要纳森在一周内利用自己精神病医生的专业技能只好一个名叫伊莉莎白(布莱特妮·墨菲 Brittany Murphy 饰)的女子的病。 在绑匪先进的监控设备下,纳森无法报警,而伊莉莎白的奇怪表现让纳森手足无措。眼看着约定的期限即将到来,事件的情况越发紧急。女探员桑德拉(珍妮弗·艾斯波西多 Jennifer Esposito 饰)的出现无疑成为了纳森唯一的一根救命稻草,在她的帮助下,纳森不仅追踪到了绑匪的行踪,伊莉莎白神秘的过去也逐渐浮出了水面。