剧情介绍
故事发生在80年代的美国，坎贝尔（史蒂夫·库根 Steve Coogan 饰）是在纽约报任职的记者，不久之前，他的恋人自杀身亡，使得坎贝尔一直都无法走出阴影，工作上有所倦怠，造成了主编的不满。主编将他发配到了一个偏僻的小镇上采访无人问津的小新闻。坎贝尔想起自己曾经的大学同学山姆在这里当老师，决定拜访他，之后震惊的得知，山姆在不久之前去世了。 坎贝尔决定山姆的死并不像表面看起来的那么简单，便决定将此作为报道素材，深入追踪调查。在彻彻底底的融入了山姆的朋友圈后，坎贝尔终于发现了山姆费心隐藏的秘密以及他真正的死因。What makes a hero? January, 1986. Campbell Babbitt is a reporter for the New York World, writing a series on a woman who turned the grief of losing a son into civic acts. He falls in love with her, and when she commits suicide, he continues to write made-up stories about her. His editor sends him to New Hampshire to cover the Challenger flight from the town of teacher Christa McAuliffe. The launch is postponed for a few days, giving Campbell time to get to know a group of misfit students whose own teacher killed himself the day Campbell arrives in town. He pieces the story together that led to the suicide, finds himself attracted to a student, and has to sort out his own loss.