- 故事发生在位于密西西比的劳改农场之中,杀人犯鲍尔斯(基思·卡拉丹 Keith Carradine 饰)伙同他在狱中结识的一干亡命之徒实施越狱,幸运之神眷顾了他们,成功越狱后的鲍尔斯一行人来到了亲戚家,打算躲躲风头。在那里,鲍尔斯遇见了名为剀切(谢莉·杜瓦尔 Shelley Duvall 饰)的女子,剀切的温柔善良令鲍尔斯一见钟情,可是,如今沦为逃犯的鲍尔斯真的能够如他所愿抱得美人归吗? 越狱之后,鲍尔斯和他的兄弟们不甘寂寞,抢了几次小劫,“收成”尚且说得过去,这令几个大男人放松了警惕。终于,在又一次抢劫之中,劫匪们遭遇了“滑铁卢”,躲避着穷追不舍的警察,鲍尔斯来到了剀切处,希望她能够提供庇护。
- Henry Warner has wife that wants somebody else's life, a teenage daughter who wants her own apartment, an 8 year old daughter who wants to be Wayne Gretzky, his mother-in-law hates him and his five year old son has yet to speak. Henry and his family make an unlikely connection with Travis Parker, a kid with his first job at a collection agency that is inhabited by a diverse gro...
- A group of Chicago cops are involved in a raid from which $3,000,000 disappears. The local mob go after them and the body count starts to rise. The new Chief of Police makes it clear to the last remaining officer that he will look the other way if he takes the law into his own hands. When the policeman finds he can't follow through on this someone else does and he finds himself and his girl are being hunted by more or less everyone for their own reasons. Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk>