In 1963, eighteen-year-old Patricia Weir is kidnapped and brutally raped. Committed to putting her attacker, Ernesto Miranda, in prison, Patty's life is destroyed by America's legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the Nation.
纽约捕快尼克(迈克尔?道格拉斯 Michael Douglas 饰)是个横冲直撞的仳离男人,他比来因渎职嫌疑被风纪部分查询拜访。某日尼克与同伴文森(安迪?加西亚 Andy Garcia 饰)在一家餐厅中有时碰到日本黑帮的内部火并,二人虽将首犯佐藤(松田优作 饰)捕捉,但佐藤抢到的神秘块状物却不知往向。日本方面要求引渡佐藤,尼克和文森只得押送佐藤到达大…