电影讲述，乔波拿马拥有过人的音乐天赋，他的父亲希望他在这方面能有所建树，但乔自己却希望能成为一名拳击手。为此他说服濒临破产的拳击经纪人汤姆穆迪给他一个机会。在汤姆穆迪专业的指导下乔迅速上升，不久就成为著名拳手。但是“打假拳”的问题开始困扰乔，黄金男孩该何去何从呢。

本片讲述了，在30年代的美国，一个谋杀儿童的连环杀手Albert Fish的故事。A solid thriller about Albert Fish (a very fine performance by Patrick Bauchau), the real life serial killer of children in 1930's America. Fish seemed a harmless old man, but in 1934 he was arrested as the murderer of several missing children he somehow duped their families into leaving him with (using an assumed name throughout). Part character study and part detective procedural, The Gray Man wisely avoids graphic horror and sensationalism (Fish's murders, for instance, are never shown on camera), and while it is rather conventional, it is nevertheless quite chilling nonetheless and it shows a director with a very keen sense of storytelling.