简介：On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife.Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.
简介：安德鲁（汤姆•汉克斯 Tom Hanks 饰）和米勒（丹泽尔•华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）认识于法庭上，两人都是年轻有为的律师，各为其主。然而，年轻的安德鲁不久后因为同性恋和身染艾滋病被老板发现，以莫须有理由解雇了。遭解雇后的安德鲁四处寻找律师为他讨回公道。当安德鲁找到米勒时，米勒一开始拒绝了他。因为米勒像普通人一样憎恨同性恋和惧怕艾滋病，但当他看到安德鲁在图书馆搜索“艾滋病歧视”时遭到管理员的白眼，听着妻子缓慢而平静地说出他们的姨妈、朋友有很多也是同性恋时，他决定受理安德鲁的案件。在最后的法庭上，病危的安德鲁毅然出庭……
简介：本片取材自真实事件。伊拉克步兵麦克•德尔菲尔德（乔纳森•塔克 Jonathan Tucker 饰）的父亲汉克•德尔菲尔德（汤米•李•琼斯 Tommy Lee Jones 饰）某天突然接到儿子回国后失踪的消息。老兵汉克驱车来到军营亲自调查，从儿子手机的影像中一点点了解到了麦克在伊拉克所经历的心理创伤。没多久警方发现麦克遇害，并被肢解焚尸。汉克的妻子琼（苏珊•萨兰登 Susan Sarandon 饰）得知噩耗后悲恸万分，不能自己。汉克在调查案件的过程中结识了当地探员艾米莉（查理兹•塞隆 Charlize Theron 饰），二人建立了一种特殊的友谊，并一步步接近事件的真相。本片获奥斯卡奖最佳男主角提名（汤米•李•琼斯），并获第64界威尼斯电影节天主教文化奖大奖及金狮奖提名。