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.

这部另类喜剧以1964年纽约市在隆克斯区中产阶层为背景，朱迪·福斯特扮演一名年轻女子，当一名痴恋她的狂人从狱中出来，她向由粗暴莽汉变成和平使者的提姆罗宾斯求助，阻止了该名校园狂汉对她施暴。

美国核潜艇蒙坦娜号在深海追踪一个不明物体的时候不幸失踪，高压潜水钻台深海之心号工头巴德（艾德·哈里斯 Ed Harris 饰）接到命令负责配合科菲上尉（迈克尔·比恩 Michael Biehn 饰）前去营救。令人意想不想不到的是一同前往的还有跟巴德一直在闹别扭的妻子—— 石油公司工程师琳西（玛丽·伊丽莎白·马斯特兰托尼奥 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio）。三人为主的救援队潜到潜艇失踪的海底深渊边缘，却发现潜艇上无人幸存，令人恐慌的是深渊里还存在着一种未知的怪物。经过一系列的危机之后，科菲上尉不听劝阻认定这是苏联的阴谋，决定把从潜艇上拆下来的核弹发射给不明的敌人，于是巴德和琳西联手开始了殊死搏斗。千钧一发之际巴德不顾危险救下了琳西，并且潜下深渊去拆掉核弹头上的引信，完成任务之后巴德的氧气已经消耗殆尽，而就在此刻深海的怪物再次出现。