Different Drummers is based on a true story about two unusual boys in Spokane, Washington in the mid 1960s. In this more innocent time, when body builder Jack Lalanne ruled the airwaves, the two heroes, a couple of elementary school students, make a bold attempt to triumph over mortality through friendship. Eleven year old David is slowing down and is now wheelchair-bound by muscular dystrophy, while Lyle can't stop speeding up. Back then, he was referred to as having a condition called MDB (Minimal Brain Dysfunction) but today he would be diagnosed with "Attention Deficit Disorder." Lyle wants more than anything to get David out of his wheelchair and running again, and he concocts a wild scheme involving a science project, some firemen, drummers, the school principal, a cop and a hand-walk across the school gymnasium, among other things. It works like this: Inspired by his TV idol, Lalanne, and his message of "intestinal fortitude and willpower," Lyle manages to convince David that ...
The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge energetic system and he becomes the binding bridge between the geopolitical problems of post-soviet space and the common people. The economic devastation of the country had an enormous impact on the industrial workers and yet despite the upheaval, these people did not seize to love and suffer, to have and be friends and to enjoy their lives… In particular our resilient electrician, who possesses a wonderful and open heart. He not only brings electric light (which is often out) to the lives of the inhabitants of this small city, but he also spreads the light of love, loyalty, life and mainly laughter.
故事发生在禁酒令执行期间，私酒买卖成为了黑帮分子们赚钱谋利的最佳手段。达利（大卫·帕特里克·凯利 David Patrick Kelly 饰）和史托兹（尼德·艾森伯格 Ned Eisenberg 饰）分别是爱尔兰黑手党和意大利黑手党的首脑，两个帮派因为争夺地盘的问题而闹得剑拔弩张。 某日，镇上来了一位神秘的流浪抢手，自称史密斯（布鲁斯·威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰），经验丰富的他很快就看出了盘旋在小镇上空一触即发的紧张气氛，喜欢铤而走险的史密斯决定在此大捞一笔。史密斯游走于达利和史托兹之间，很快就赚得盆满钵满，然而，没过多久，他就发现，自己陷入了危机之中，成为了两大黑手党都想要除掉的对象。
