徐家父亲逝世了，身在美国的徐定贵（刘德华 饰）应叔父的邀请回到了香港承继遗产。徐定贵有个同父异母的哥哥徐定富，定富对于这个前来分家产的弟弟十分不满，刚好叔父要求定贵在公司工作，并要求他表现良好才能顺利领得遗产。为了能独吞财富，假仁假义的定富故意招来了三位出名的损友，跟定贵成为朋友后把他教坏。意想不到的是这三位损友不但没有把定贵教坏，四人还成为了好友。当他们知道了定富的阴谋之后，决定联手对付卑鄙的定富。

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

托尔金（尼古拉斯·霍尔特 Nicholas Hoult 饰）和弟弟在很小的时候就被亲人抛弃了，善良的神父弗朗西斯（科尔姆·米尼 Colm Meaney 饰）收留了无家可归的兄弟两人，他们从此便浸淫在浓厚的天主教文化之中。长大后的托尔金凭借自己的努力进入了一所贵族学校就读，在那里，他遇见了罗伯特（帕特里克·吉布森 Patrick Gibson 饰）、杰弗里（安东尼·鲍伊 Anthony Boyle 饰）和怀斯曼（泰·田纳特 Ty Tennant 饰）等同龄人，对于文学和艺术的热情让他们之间结下了深厚的友谊。与此同时，托尔金还遇到了自己的伯乐约瑟夫教授（德里克·雅各比 Derek Jacobi 饰），他在托尔金的身上看到了无穷无尽的可能性。

派德罗（比德洛·阿门德里兹 Pedro Armendáriz 饰）、罗伯特（约翰·韦恩 John Wayne 饰）和艾伯林（沃尔特·布伦南 Walter Brennan 饰）三人合伙抢劫银行，遭到了警方的追捕，三人逃进了茫茫沙漠之中。波利警探（沃德·邦德 Ward Bond 饰）警探知道三人在沙漠中最需要的就是水资源了，于是在每个水塔下都部下了重重的埋伏。无奈之下，三名劫匪只得忍受着饥渴，在沙漠中寻找一线生机。三人意外遇到了一个刚刚产子，快要死去的女人，女人将她的孩子托付给了三名大汉。三个从未照顾过婴儿的男人，只能够根据唯一的一本育婴手册和圣经来行事，虽然环境非常的艰苦，情势十分的危机，但三人还是苦中作乐，坚定的守护的婴儿的生命。