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。
To chase her dream of going to school in her remote Himalayan village, a feisty paraplegic girl locks horns with her tradition-bound grandfather. Sprightly Chuskit's dream of going to school is cut short when she is rendered a paraplegic after an accident. She's confined to life indoors in the company of her strict grandfather, Dorje. Chuskit continues to harbor hopes of school but Dorje tries to make her understand that school can't handle her needs. As life at home gets harder, her battle with her grandfather exacerbates. Caught in between their struggle are Chuskit's parents and her enterprising brother who want to respect the old world views that Dorje represents, but also want to keep Chuskit's spirit alive. Chuskit will have to get her grandfather to yield or she will have to accept the reality he has chosen for her.
埃琳?布罗克维奇(朱莉娅?罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰)是倒霉鬼中的典型。她结过两次婚,但每次婚姻都没有给她带来幸福,反而令她成了一个拖着三个孩子的单身母亲。倒霉的她在遭到一场交通事故后,连志在必得的赔偿官司到最后都输掉了。 为她辩护的律师埃德(阿尔伯特?芬尼 Albert Finney 饰)半是同情埃琳半是因为帮她打输了官司心感内疚,收留了埃琳在他的律师楼里打杂。埃琳的生活算是有了一点保障。在调查一单污水申诉案时,埃琳偶然发现了污水中含剧毒物质,而供水公司确对此敷衍了事。弱女子埃琳决定用她柔弱的肩膀担负起为受污染的数百名居民讨回公道的重担!
Private investigator and former police detective Jack Ramsey is enjoying an affair with the local district attorney's wife, but when she is strangled not long after he has departed following a session of amorous activity.
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself “already dead.”
A straight-laced young woman, in fierce denial of being diagnosed with terminal melanoma, finds herself carried away on an impulsive adventure by a queer stranger.
吉尔(史蒂夫·马丁 Steve Martin 饰)最小的儿子凯文(Jasen Fisher 饰)因为性格极度内向而被学校老师劝退回到了家中,这可急坏了吉尔。为了帮助凯文重拾自信,吉尔天天陪着凯文玩耍游戏,但似乎没有什么效果。吉尔的妹夫内森(里克·莫拉尼斯 Rick Moranis 饰)的教育理念和吉尔完全相反,他希望能够将女儿培养成为一名有用之才,可在他的填鸭式教育的压迫之下,不仅女儿失去了快乐的生活,就连妻子也最终离开了他。 巴克曼(玛丽·斯汀伯根 Mary Steenburgen 饰)是一名单亲母亲,独自抚养着一双儿女,生活本就不易的她还遭遇了两个孩子的叛逆期,女儿早早结婚成家,儿子则日益沉默寡言。