奥吉（哈威·凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）经营着一间雪茄店，年近四十的他依然过着形单影只的生活，只有常常光顾的潦倒作家本杰明（威廉·赫特 William Hurt 饰）能偶尔跟他聊聊天，解解闷。本杰明的生活同样不尽如人意。一场意外让本杰明遇见了名为拉希德（哈罗·佩里纽 Harold Perrineau Jr. 饰）的黑人男孩，一来二去之间，两人结下了深厚的友谊。
某日，奥吉的前女友卢比（斯托卡特·詹宁 Stockard Channing 饰）来到了雪茄店，两人有十八年没有见过面了。卢比告诉奥吉，他们的女儿费莉希蒂（艾什莉·贾德 Ashley Judd 饰）不仅未婚先孕，还染上了毒品，尽管奥吉和这个素未谋面的女儿之间并没有亲情可言，但他还是驱车前去探望。

Jude是一位大学教授，他迷上了他的学生Sophie。反过来，她被他的学术魅力所吸引。调情变成了欲望，两人成了恋人。

Danny, Spikes and Silk have just recently graduated from high school in New York. Danny finds a title deed for a huge house in a small town. He has a dream to turn it into a Rock n' Roll hotel. The townspeople though are not very welcome to the New Yorkers. With a little help from an aging stockbroker, a local girl, and the "stockholders" (friends from New York), they are able to help Danny pursue his dream. Written by Pat McCurry {ccgrad97@aol.com}

Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other — and even worse, learn to like each other as friends.