通过几个农村青年的爱情纠葛和命运的描写，反映了改革开放初期中原大地农村的变化。

毕业于汉城大学法律系的高材生朴大书（郑俊浩 饰）本来生活平静，相处六年的女友关系稳定，事业也蒸蒸日上，但是这一切在一次与著名黑帮“三J帮”龙头千金张真庆（金晶恩 饰）莫名其妙的同床后改变了……原来张氏黑帮深感自身素质顽劣，为了家族荣誉想要引起一名高学历的女婿，朴大书不幸进入张氏三兄弟视野，被设计安排与真庆同床。此后，张氏三兄弟以同床事件为口实，展开了对大书的威逼利诱。另一方面，张家老爷子对这位未来女婿也颇为中意，朴大书只得受命拜见未来“岳父”，魂飞胆散又深感为难，而真庆虽然出身黑道家庭，可身上并无暴戾之气，在三兄弟的逼迫算计与真庆的柔顺性格的夹击下，独木难支的大书动摇了……

《父母心》是獨立電影人約翰．卡薩維蒂於六十年代遇上荷里活製片之產物。故事講及精神科醫生畢蘭加士打聘請了來自音樂學院的朱迪．格蘭，於兒童精神病院利用嶄新手法教導外界認為無可救助的精神病兒童吉娜．羅蘭茲。片中兒童皆來自加州其中一間兒童精神中心，將這班被遺忘的一群真實地呈現在觀眾面前。都市人面對種種生活壓力，大量社會問題備受關注。當面對社會的陰暗面時，主流社會最初會以迴避的態度面對，而經過大量之社會運動、媒體報導等以令社會更多元、開放，以積極的態度去面對。這種社會心態轉變可能用上半個世紀，甚至更長時間。其中兒童問題從來都是一個敏感議題，而卡薩維蒂早在六十年代已利用光影之間揭示社會鮮為人知的一面，廣泛引起主流社會討論。卡薩維蒂是一位極具才華的獨立電影導演，游走於荷里活製作和獨立電影之間，利用偏鋒路線打破固有荷里活電影記事模式，注重強烈的演員性格去反映現實社會。本片被評為卡氏最為大膽作品之一，其寫實性令人嘆為觀止，創新起用精神病兒童在作品中表演。深刻地勾勒出這批非主流兒童的困境，打破大眾對他們的形象。而憑藉這齣先驅作品，我們更可以反思現時香港社會在這方面的缺失。As a result of co-operation between Cassavetes and Hollywood's producers, A Child is Waiting was shown in the 1960s. Burt Lancaster, a psychiatrist, hires Judy Garland to work at a psychiatric facility for children. Garland uses an innovative method to teach a mentally retarded child, Gena Rowland, who the world has turned its back on. Patients in the film were from a real life psychiatric institution, where this group of forsaken children was being honestly presented to the audience.City life is filled with all sorts of stress and problems. When facing the dark side of society, the mainstream community usually takes refuge in escapism. It is only after waves of social movements and media coverage that the people's attitudes about these problems would change and that they would take affirmative action about it. This process might take half century or longer. Children issue has always been a sensitive subject, yet Cassavetes has already chosen to show its untold stories in his film in the early sixties to arouse public discussion.Cassavetes was a talented independent filmmaker who also engaged in Hollywood productions. His works emphasized on his actors, and through their characters, instead of traditional storytelling techniques, explored the realities of society. This film was hailed as the most daring piece of Cassavetes' works. Its realism was praised, especially of his inclusion of real life patients. The patients' difficulties were profoundly illustrated so as to eradicate the public's prejudice against them. From this avant-garde work, we can even reconsider the situation of these issues in Hong Kong.source: Hong Kong Arts Centre

五龙（陶泽如 饰）逃荒进城凭着一身蛮力做了大鸿米店的伙计，食量惊人的他惹来了米店冯老板和大女儿绮云（杨昆 饰）的百般刁难，而自小便作了六爷姘妇的小女儿织云（石兰 饰）却见他总是笑逐颜开，白天到处受人欺负的五龙只有晚上躺在米仓里大口大口的嚼生米时才能感觉到踏实。偶然一次机会，让五龙发现织云和六爷的手下阿保在一起鬼混，为了报复阿保平日里对自己的欺辱，五龙偷偷向六爷告发，后来阿保就被人给捅了。初尝报复带来的快感让五龙兴奋的彻夜无眠，而生性风流的织云对他的百般勾引又令他完全迷失。从此，五龙便开始对身边欺负自己的一个个城里人疯狂的报复……本片由著名作家苏童的小说《米》改编，于1995年摄制完成后因被认为宣扬人性恶论而被称为灰色电影，雪藏七年后才得以解禁。