里克是一名三十多岁的洛杉矶县救生员。在他15年的高中同学聚会上，他看到了他的前女友，她现在是一位离婚的母亲。在爱上她之后，里克考虑改变他的职业和生活方式。

Teen lovers Bobby and Terry band together with other roller skaters to try and prevent a powerful mobster taking over the land their favourite skating rink sits on, and compete in the Boogie Contest.

Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father's fortune.

A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, brutally punishing any miscreants they catch in a criminal act. In the meantime, Kevin debates the issue of violent crime in the U.S. with his teachers and others during the day. As Kevin and his gang head toward a final, bloody confrontation with the low-lifes who murdered his sister, other scenes show the difference between his character, now violent, and the normal people he is supposedly protecting.