前科累累的惯犯嗨（尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）同狱警艾德（霍利·亨特 Holly Hunter 饰）一见钟情，两人喜结连理。之后，嗨决定为了爱妻痛改前非做个好人。非常喜欢孩子的艾德发现自己居然无法生育，终日郁郁寡欢，嗨看在眼里十分痛心。镇上的大亨亚利桑纳（特雷·威尔逊 Trey Wilson 饰）家诞下了五胞胎，听闻此事，艾德和嗨甘愿冒险，从大亨处偷了一个名叫尼尔森二世的婴儿。终于有了孩子艾德十分幸福，嗨却逐渐感到了作为一名父亲的压力。丢失了孩子的大亨十分焦急，报案之后警察却对案件毫不上心，此时，一名自称“地狱使者”的壮汉找到大亨，打包票能帮他寻回儿子。 嗨的家里也是一团糟，两名囚犯越狱前来投奔嗨，他们发现婴儿身价不菲将其劫走。与此同时，嗨得罪过的上司也发现了婴儿的秘密，并以此要挟嗨对他百依百顺。千钧一发之际，为了妻儿，为了保护他所爱的人们，嗨不得不重出江湖。

A homicidal foreclosure victim kidnaps a real estate agent and plans to kill her in the housing development where she finagled money from customers like him.

A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.

在纽约打工的青年阿克塞梦中看到一位因纽特人昏倒在冰原上，雪橇犬将其救回，一只红气球在空中不停飘荡…阿克塞痴迷表演的朋友保罗来访，邀请他远赴亚利桑那为伯父里奥伴婚，里奥在亚利桑那经营汽车生意打拼多年，遂留下阿克塞与保罗二人在车行中工作。不久阿克塞结识了性格不合的艾琳娜与格蕾丝母女，为帮助艾琳娜圆一个飞行梦，阿克塞便留在了这对母女家中，尝试制作各种飞行器，在不断的失败中从头再来…