比利（杰米•贝尔 Jamie Bell 饰）的家人是英国的一个底层矿工。他们参加罢工，性色挣扎在贫困的生活中，性色并认为比利应该学些男人的拳术。比利本来每周都去一回拳击班，偶然的机会却让他走上了不一样的路途。因为一个小意外，比利发现了潜意识中对芭蕾的热爱，而挑剔世故的芭蕾老师威尔金森（朱丽•沃特斯 Julie Walters 饰）无意中发现了比利极具芭蕾天赋。二人一拍即合，威尔金森甚至放弃她的一班女学生，把全部心思放在培养小比利上。可是比利的家庭全然不理解儿子为何爱上女生的玩意。比利在家庭的反对下，痛苦的抉择。然而大好机会就在当前。万一考上伦敦的皇家芭蕾学校，比利的芭蕾梦想将得到一个广阔舞台。比利站在一个十字路口，选择着他的人生。
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回复 :“It is a film from an extended series. It is hard to say who is the main character of “The Soviet Elegy.” There are more than a hundred faces of our compatriots. But, of course, it is not by chance that it is the destiny of a famous political figure, Boris Nikolayevitch Yeltsin, that bears a special accent in the film. Though he got to power following quite typical ways, his uncommon character puts him out of the ordinary, and in the author’s opinion it may be determined by his uncommon human nature. Our hero exists within the tragic pattern of the soviet socialist life. He is a character of a drama, of which he is one of the authors. “The Soviet Elegy” can hardly be called a documentary film in the proper sense. Of course, the author guarantees the accuracy of chronology, but he insists on an artistic mode of thinking, not on a political or historical investigation.”
回复 :山杠爷（李仁堂 饰）是堆堆坪的党政最高领导人。由干他在村里主政几十年，享有很高的威望。但村妇强英吊死在他门前，还是在村里掀起不小波澜。与此同时，接到匿名信的县检察院干部苏琴来到村里调查。自以为“身正不怕影子歪”的山杠爷并不惧怕调查组。苏琴很快查明了强英自杀原因，一切皆是山杠爷工作作风粗暴所致。山杠爷为催在外打工者回村种责任田，私拆他人信件。村民不按时交公粮，他派民兵关押。腊正反对滩派民工被他打了耳光等等。苏琴明白，山杠爷大公无私无可厚非，但法律意视淡漠，以为村规就是国法。山杠爷自知违法，临行前，他有条不紊地交待着村里的工作，送行的人们在一声声“杠爷”中跪满一地......
回复 :某天，極具盛名的案件代理人弼載（金明民）和律師判秀（成東鎰）收到一封來自死刑犯的信。轟動社會的財團媳婦命案，嫌疑犯順泰（金相浩）主張自己是冤枉的，而弼載身為案件代理人，也直覺認為背後有不對勁。為了揭發財團的蠻行，弼載和判秀這對歐吉桑搭擋展開調查，試圖揭發錯綜複雜的內幕…
