这是一部虚构的政治恐怖电影。一九八四年,在经历一系列战争和合并后,世界只存在三个超级大国了——大洋国、东亚国和欧亚国。温斯顿(约翰•赫特 John Hurt 饰)生活在老大哥统治下的大洋国,这里,和其他两国一样,到处都安装着电幕(一种类似电视机的监视器),每个人都生活都在党的思想警察的监视下,历史完全按照党的需要每天都被改写。
虽然无法说出为什么,作为外围党员的温斯顿从心里厌恶老大哥。一日,他偷偷从一家陈年杂货铺处买了一本日记本——原则上党不允许写日记,表达个人思想——开始写日记。当他和在小说司工作的裘莉亚(苏珊娜•汉密尔顿 Suzanna Hamilton 饰)违反党的政策开始秘密偷情时,思想警察悄悄盯上了他。
At the start of his senior year in high school, Morgan's father has lost his company, so the family moves from Connecticut, where they've been in the yacht club, to an apartment in the San Fernando Valley. Morgan has grown up in the shadow of his high-achieving older brother, and he seems to have a knack for getting into trouble. He also has a stubborn streak, so when he finds himself attracted to Frankie, the girlfriend of the leader of a local gang of youthful thugs, he can't stop himself from pushing her for a relationship. The thug thinks of Frankie as his property and sees the cool, urbane Morgan as dead meat. Is this a struggle to the death?