艾利(约翰·C·赖利 John C. Reilly 饰)和查理(华金·菲尼克斯 Joaquin Phoenix 饰)是一对杀手兄弟,某日,他们接到了一项任务,去暗杀一名淘金者。于是,两个男人火速从俄勒冈前往旧金山,一路上,两个人遇到的麻烦可不少,但他们凭借着智慧和勇气将它们一一化解,最终安全的抵达了目的地。 当他们见到了他们的目标时才发现,这个名叫沃姆(里兹·阿迈德 Riz Ahmed 饰)的男人是一名化学家,他发明出了一种神奇的药剂,可以帮助人们更快速的寻找到金矿的所在。两利相权取其重,艾利和查理当即决定辞去杀手这份工作,转而成为来钱更快的淘金汉,哪知道他们为这个鲁莽的决定付出了沉重的代价。Based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, The Sisters Brothers revolves around the colorfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm, who's being pursued across 1000 miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco by the notorious assassins Eli and Charlie Sisters. Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.