故事发生在1980年的澳大利亚,迈克尔(山姆·尼尔 Sam Neill 饰)和妻子林迪(梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰)带着他们的三个孩子正在进行一场家庭旅行。某天夜里,夫妻两人将最小的孩子阿扎利亚留在襁褓之中外出访友,哪知道一场意外的发生夺走了阿扎利亚幼小的生命。
让迈克尔和林迪万万没有想到的是,他们除了要承受失去孩子的巨大悲痛之外,竟然还遭到了指控,指控夫妻两人正是幕后的凶手。随后,法庭开始了对于该案件的漫长的审判,尽管缺乏关键的证据,但林迪还是被判处了终身监禁。在狱中,林迪生下了第四个孩子,孩子被交由迈克尔抚养。漫长的牢狱岁月里,林迪不断的上诉,并最终为自己挣得了清白和自由。。陈洛与唐瑾瑜结婚五年,身为家庭煮夫的他默默付出却始终被冷漠对待,在确诊胃癌晚期后选择留下离婚协议离开。唐瑾瑜起初不以为意,直到陈洛“去世”的消息传来,才在回忆与细节中幡然醒悟,开始疯狂追悔与挽回。。This very Kafka-esque film is Keaton's response to the Fatty Arbuckle scandal.[citation needed] Even though the central character's intentions are good, he cannot win, no matter how inventively he tries. He gets into various scraps with police officers throughout the film. Eventually, he unwittingly throws a bomb into a police parade and ends up being chased by a horde of cops.
At the end of the film, Keaton's character locks up the cops in the police station. However, the girl he is trying to woo disapproves of his behavior and gives him the cold shoulder. Therefore, he unlocks the police station and is immediately pulled in by the cops. The film ends with the title "The End" written on a tombstone with Keaton's pork pie hat propped on it.
One of Keaton's most iconic and brilliantly-constructed short films, Cops was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry in 1997.。