A trip into the mind of down-and-out rock star, Janie. Having alienated everyone she knows, Janie is forced to take a boring job in a finance office where she meets Kevin, an ex-surfer who finds Janie's prickly personality intriguing. As they grow closer, they find that they bring out the wild side in each other, and as the relationship escalates out of control, somebody is bound to get hurt.

Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.

Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

Aerosmith performs in the music video "Janie's Got a Gun" from the album "Pump" recorded for Geffen Records. Aerosmith performs the song on a darkened concert stage. Video clips detail a story of an abused young woman who shoots her father and the police investigation of the crime.