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高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后,父亲倒毙地上,母亲把她踢出家门,男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生,但他有个原则:质量至上,这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助,他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.。杰克是一名患有创伤后应激障碍的退伍军人,一些应激反应严重影响到了他的日常生活,但杰克还是付出全部的努力照顾自己的妹妹。这天,杰克与妹妹正常外出,走到波士顿的托宾纪念桥上,却发现桥已经被堵住。原来,一群全副武装的犯罪分子正在劫持一辆押送犯人的警车并将桥上所有人扣为人质。他们向政府索要金额巨大的赎金和要求释放他们的队友。眼看无辜的人们和自己的妹妹生命即将收到威胁,杰克站了出来。他用自己在部队中学到的本事加上广大人质的配合,和这帮匪徒斗智斗勇,击毙了不少反派分子。最终和特警人员里应外合挫败了阴谋,解救了众多人质。。