初出茅庐的鲁迪·贝勒(马特·达蒙 Matt Damon饰)是刚踏进律师界的新手。一腔热血的鲁迪接手的第一个案子是一宗涉及医疗保险赔偿的诉讼。无助的母亲,生命垂危的儿子,拒绝支付医疗费的保险公司,不择手段的辩护律师,一切都跟当初设想的大相径庭。面对种种举步维艰的行业阴暗面和陷于困境的弱势群体,鲁迪至始至终都没有放弃他的正义之心。影片的另一条主线还有一位遭受家庭暴力的受虐少妇。影片用写实的手法,向我们描绘了一场捍卫正义的道德之战。
本片根据约翰·格里沙姆的同名小说改编。
In this powerful documentary, Mama Yang, an 84-year-old woman living in New York, finds herself in correspondence with 45 high security prison inmates she views as her own children. Most are Chinese American immigrants, and see in Mama Yang a mother figure they never knew before they stepped through prison walls.
For Mama Yang though, the story is about more than Christian charity. She had already lived a full life in Taiwan when her husband died at age sixty and her son lost their house in a financial blunder. She moved to the US to start anew and lives with a Taiwanese American granddaughter that remains distant. In a film marked by family separations, Mama Yang writes letters – whether to the incarcerated or to her own granddaughter – to heal lifetimes of wounds.