在大学期间,斯科特(凯文·詹姆斯KevinJames饰)是一名野心勃勃的摔跤选手,对于摔跤的热爱让他的生活充满了挑战和激情,他曾天真的以为,这份激情不可能会有退却的一天。然而,在42岁之际,斯科特突然发现自己竟然成为了一个生活乏善可陈的中年教师,死气沉沉的工作环境,毫无前途和发展刻板职业,在内心里,有一部分早已死去。为了节省开支,学校决定取消音乐课,作为音乐老师,马蒂(亨利·温克勒HenryWinkler饰)即将面临被解雇的命运。马蒂的悲惨遭遇点燃了斯科特的斗志,他决定帮朋友一把。通过打地下拳击赛,斯科特筹得了资金保住了音乐课在学校里的地位,他的这一举动却遭到了他人的误解。但是,在斯科特的内心里,放弃还是坚守,这个问题的答案早已了然于心。 Diz (Joel Courtney) is a reckless teenage drifter living life on the run. Abandoned by his parents as a child, he looks out for himself and doesn't accept handouts. He takes whatever he wants and runs. Jaded and determined to answer to no one, Diz lives a life marked by thievery and abandonment. Things change for Diz when he floats into a small town on the Snake River. There he is confronted by an unflappable old man named Marty and falls for Marty's guarded granddaughter, Selah. When Diz robs a local drug-dealing crazy, he becomes the owner of a giant pile of cash and the target of two vicious killers. With more money than he knows what to do with, and criminals at his heels, Diz puts the people he's learned to care about in danger, still trying to win Selah. But some things can't be stolen or bought. The River Thief is a film about guilt, self-sacrifice, and accepting life as a gift. 商场保安保罗(凯文·詹姆斯KevinJames饰)的梦想是成为一名警察,但低血糖的体质让他在新泽西警察学校的考试中再次失败,保罗带着颓意返回家中,母亲和女儿给予安慰并劝说他再找一位爱人。保罗又开始了每天平淡的工作:指路或是被商场的孩子们捉弄,但今天,他的目光被假发柜台的艾米(杰玛·梅斯JaymaMays饰)深深吸引,保罗希望在艾米面前彰显男儿本色,但无奈庞大的身躯和偏弱的体质总是令他的自尊受损。这天,一群匪徒占领了商场,计划对店面和银行进行暴劫,而躲在游戏厅中的保罗对这一切浑然不觉,当他赤手空拳面对劫匪时,剩下的只有逃跑,然而保罗意识到艾米被劫为人质时,他决定不顾一切返回商场……