本片改編自英國有名的冤獄。故事敘述一個愛爾蘭青年蓋瑞因和一群吸大麻的朋友（包括他表哥）混在一起，而當時愛爾蘭解放軍的暴動令政府當局頭痛致極，極力拿人治罪，不巧，蓋瑞所居留的地方曾有愛爾蘭解放軍停留過，於是蓋瑞被列為頭號嫌疑犯，連帶的，他那位做獵腸的阿姨被指控為製作炸彈、甚至連一心護兒蓋瑞的父親（《水世界》、《大地英豪》、《異形Ⅲ》、《侏儸紀公園：失落的世界》彼得波斯特勒斯威特飾）也沒放過。於是他們成了解放軍家族被叛入獄……多年後，蓋瑞絲皮爾斯律師（艾瑪湯普遜飾）發現這宗大冤獄，主動提出幫他們父子兩平反。經過這麼多年的牢獄生活，其實他們也無所求了，蓋瑞所想要的不過是把刑期服完，可是他父親卻堅持著為自己清刷自己的名譽。最後父親的健康狀況愈來愈差，為了父親，蓋瑞決定放手一搏…… 好不容易贏得了官司，可是父親卻已死，這一場冤獄所付出的代價非常之大，對蓋瑞來說，這一切，全是為了他父親之名。而丹尼爾戴路易斯一路從青年演到進入中年，心情的轉折，榮獲 當年奧斯卡、金球獎、柏林最佳男主角提名。

In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993) is a documentary film about Aileen Wuornos, made by Nick Broomfield. It documents Broomfield's attempts to interview Wuornos, which involves a long process of mediation through her adopted mother Arlene Pralle and lawyer, Steve Glazer.

During a 1980s crime wave, a cop’s daughter goes on a rampage to unearth her father’s attempted assassin and weed out deep-rooted corruption in the New York City Police Department.