《衡量一个人》片名取自柏拉图名言:「衡量一个人,端看他拥有权力时的所做所为」(The measure of a man is what he does with power)。剧情描述一个中年失业父亲、奋力寻找工作的故事,他在经历各种羞辱人的面试和受训课程后,最后找到了令他讨厌的超市警卫的工作,却拥有监视顾客与同侪的无上权力。但他被迫必须揪出在超市行窃的小贼,而这些人却都是跟他一样同属生活无继的人…。...
由于工作上的失误,发明家罗伯特(凯文·史派西 Kevin Spacey 饰)所发明的运动器械导致了数千人手部受伤,因此,罗伯特被判处了八年的有期徒刑,以此弥补他所犯下的过错。八年后,出狱的罗伯特并没有感觉到重获自由的欣喜,恰恰相反,当他发现前妻已经另结新欢并且霸占了房屋和财产后,愤怒和痛苦交织出现在罗伯特的心绪中。...
Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in South London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. After a messy break up from her long-term boyfriend Tom, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places, and begins to realise she has to face the past head on, before she can re-build....