Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.

Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say "Hi!". Even more astonishing that Danny meets three girls the next week and when his mother goes on vacation, one after the other shows up on his doorstep and they move in with him! However that's rather a problem for Danny, because, in love, he's just with one of them.

Trying to get his act together, a con artist gets a job in a credit card company. He falls in love with a fellow employee, he steals a couple of cards, everything is going great. But soon, the chief of security drags him into the big leagues of criminals...

年青干探威和丹尼欲擒毒品大拆家祖利奥，但反被他搞得头也头，遭上司连番炮轰，二人最后更被命令放假去，停止职务。离开芝加哥，威和丹尼到了西部享受阳光与海滩，更开始搞生意。对这种生活甚为享受的他们萌起退休念头，可是，当二人回到芝加哥，发现祖利奥正进行毒品大买卖……为擒他归案，二人合力联手，更展惊险的缉捕任务，看来二人的退休大计要无限期押后了……

　　戴维（尼古拉斯·凯奇 饰）是名天气预报员，可是他没有专业知识能用在工作上，当预报的天气并不理想时，观众们会在街上肆意向他丢垃圾。戴维对自己的生活感到灰暗，与妻子（霍普·戴维斯 饰）离婚更是对他的一个打击。如今他得到一个前往纽约重新工作的机会，可是他必须要面对与孩子们并不融洽的关系。儿子迈克被戒毒时认识的辅导员性骚扰；女儿雪丽的肥胖被学校的同学耻笑，性格忧郁。更令戴维伤心的是，他的小说家父亲罗伯特（迈克尔·凯恩 饰）患上了绝症。 　　戴维希望父亲能看到他的成功，他更想与前妻复合，一家人到纽约重新生活。无论做了多大的努力，他与家人的关系并没得到和缓，他依然遭到观众的垃圾袭击，他更开始抗拒前往纽约。 　　此时他看到父亲平静面对死亡的态度，并在与父亲相处的最后时光中，戴维被授予了很多人生的道理。

线路工人汤姆·维特斯基（凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰）和麦姬（凯瑟琳·厄比 Kathryn Erbe 饰）是一对普通的美国夫妇，他们和儿子杰克（Zachary David Cope 饰）以及麦姬的妹妹丽莎（伊莲娜·道格拉斯 Illeana Douglas 饰）住在芝加哥的郊区，生活波澜不惊。丽莎青春年少，性感迷人，带着神秘的气质。在一次派对上，汤姆被丽莎催眠，继而经历了一场短暂而惊悸的梦境。这次经历让汤姆陷入不安中，奇怪的幻像自此时常出现在他的眼前，生活也开始为诡异的氛围所包围。与此同时，年幼的杰克似乎也和父亲有着同样的感受……
本片根据理查德·麦瑟森（Richard Matheson）的同名小说改编，并荣获2000年国际恐怖导刊最佳影片。