In 1963, eighteen-year-old Patricia Weir is kidnapped and brutally raped. Committed to putting her attacker, Ernesto Miranda, in prison, Patty's life is destroyed by America's legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the Nation.
卡尔(马特·狄龙 Matt Dillon饰)和莫利(凯特·哈德森 Kate Hudson饰)的新婚生活眼看就要甜甜蜜蜜的铺开,此时却来了个不速之客:卡尔的老友杜普瑞(欧文·威尔逊 Owen Wilson饰)。这个家伙行为怪异,思想奇特,有自己一套慵懒散漫的生活方式。如今他倒了大霉,被公司解雇,随后无家可归,好心的卡尔收留他住下,并不介意杜普瑞给自己新婚生…