1979. Donald Lavoie is a fearsome hitman who works under the orders of Claude Dubois, the boss of the Montreal South-West mob. The assassin takes under his wing the young rookie Serge Rivard, a hotheaded small-time crook who soon compromises him in a dirty double murder. Thanks to the lawyers dearly paid by the Dubois clan, Donald escapes justice but that's only a temporary setback for Detective Sergeant Roger Burns, who tries to tries to convince Lavoie to become an informer. To test his killer's devotion, Dubois asks him to eliminate someone close to him. When he disobeys the order, Donald joins forces with other criminals to plan a bank robbery to finance his exile to the South. Hunted by the Dubois clan on one side and Burns' investigators on the other, Donald finds himself caught in a tightening vise.
单亲妈妈阿琳·麦肯尼(海伦·亨特 Helen Hunt饰)生活拮据,为了抚养儿子特雷弗·麦肯尼(海利·乔·奥斯蒙特Haley Joel Osment饰)而拼命工作,唯有借酒消愁才能打发深深的失落与无助。相依为命的两母子,一直过着毫无希望的生活。然而这一切在有一天发生了改变。特雷弗的社会学老师尤金·赛门特(凯文·斯帕西Kevin Spacey饰)布置了一道特殊家庭作业:让世界变得更美好。深信善有善报的特雷弗,决心从自己做起,于是他把无家可归的流浪汉请到了自己家中。
以彰显人性本善,宣传世界美好为题的社会伦理片《让爱传出去》,由美国女导演咪咪·莱德执导。咪咪为本片推出全奥斯卡阵容:曾获奥斯卡最佳男主角的凯文·斯帕西担当男主角,女主角则由荣获过奥斯卡最佳女主角的海伦·亨特出演,童星海利·乔·奥斯蒙特饰演让世界变得更加美好的小主人公特雷弗。