19歲的少年賽斯·戴維斯（吉奧瓦尼·瑞比西 Giovanni Ribisi飾）一心希望能盡快淘到自己的第一桶金，好讓父親另眼相看。他本打算靠玩非法紙牌起家，卻發(fā)現(xiàn)此路根本行不通，直到一家名為J.T.馬林經(jīng)紀(jì)公司的股票經(jīng)紀(jì)商找上了賽維斯。　　在這個號稱“鍋爐房”的核心辦公室里，多少個一夜間成為百萬富翁的故事深深誘惑著賽維斯。很快，野心勃勃的賽維斯便以優(yōu)異的成績通過了股票經(jīng)濟(jì)人認(rèn)證考試，開始了他的“成功之路”。他把那些永遠(yuǎn)都沒有前途的股票賣給利欲熏心的投資者。賽維斯正以極危險的速度追逐著金錢與利益，靠近著他所謂的功成名就，貪婪而不安。在紐約長島這個瞬息萬變的商業(yè)圈里，良心未泯的賽維斯終于開始面對良心的考驗。

　　一項革命性的人類基因研究計劃，為預(yù)防疾病與犯罪帶來了莫大幫助，身為研究員的一份子，希歐多不但致力于生命的發(fā)展與延續(xù)，還有個能預(yù)知他人死亡的特殊能力。不過這次他的能力卻陰錯陽差害死了自己的女友安娜，內(nèi)疚不已的希歐多以悲傷度日，直到一個月過去，安娜竟又活生生地出現(xiàn)在他面前？

 故事發(fā)生在2008年北京奧運(yùn)會前夕，參加過朝鮮戰(zhàn)爭的退伍老兵張大川（楊新鳴 飾），與兒子一家生活在中國南方的一個小鎮(zhèn)上，雖然同住一個屋檐下但關(guān)系并不親密。一天，大川接到老戰(zhàn)友去世的電話，于是他決定獨自前往北京，參加戰(zhàn)友的葬禮。這個計劃，被正值青春叛逆期的孫子小松（胡昌霖 飾）發(fā)現(xiàn)，小松懇求和威脅爺爺帶他一起去。爭執(zhí)之后，從未單獨出過遠(yuǎn)門的祖孫倆上路了.......

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...