龙卷风的暴戾和神秘吸引了大批科学家的深入研究,深入风暴中间是最危险的行为,但亦是探索龙卷风最有效的方法。乔(海伦·亨特 Helen Hunt饰)和离婚的丈夫比尔(比尔·帕克斯顿 Bill Paxton饰)就是这类“与龙共舞”的科学家,即使他们感情已经破裂,比尔也已找到新的恋人,但出于对龙卷风研究的痴迷,他们还是决定共同追逐一场俄克拉何马州的飓风,并把新研制成功的探测仪“多萝西”放到龙卷风中心收集数据。
他们驾驶着破旧的货车,带领着追风队,向最危险的地方进发。同时,另一队装备精良的人马也朝着这个方向驶去,由裘纳(加利·艾尔维斯 Cary Elwes饰)领队,在追风行动中和乔激励较劲。
一边是志同道合的乔,一边是畏惧惊险生活的新女友,比尔在追风过程中如何重新抉择自己的感情道路?更重要的是,面对实力雄厚的对手,和随时葬身其中的龙卷风,乔和比尔如何实现自己的追风梦想?
Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), a worn-out private detective, is hired to look for a 16-year-old girl who has run away from the luxury home of her mother, formerly a small-time actress in Los Angeles. The more the weary cynic tries to get under the surface of the seemingly simple case, the harder it is for him to find his bearings among the lies and deceptions that surround him. Eight years after the key New Hollywood film Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn and Gene Hackman reunited to collaborate on what was to become one of the most undervalued films of the decade. Like Polanski in Chinatown or Altman in The Long Goodbye, in his revisionist film noir, Penn also allows the 1940s classic genre to pervade the complex reality of the 1970s. The feelings of bitterness and emptiness in the modern Chandleresque protagonist originate not only in the “public” sphere of the strange, increasingly convoluted case, but in his private life as well (boyhood trauma, a broken marriage). As Moseby remarks of a sporting event, “nobody’s winning … one side is just losing slower than the other.”
莫妮卡(雷文·古德温饰)从同父异母的妹妹西蒙(安珀·莱利饰)的凶残魔掌中逃脱三年后,作为该市排名第一的黄金时段调查电视节目的主持人,她准备在西雅图重新开始。莫妮卡有最好的朋友贝贝(K·米歇尔 K. Michelle 饰)陪伴,还有新欢,一切都在好转。患有失忆症的西蒙正在秘密恢复健康,当她在电视上遇到莫妮卡时,她正在建立新的生活,她的记忆突然回来,导致姐妹之间发生了命运般的重聚。两人能否抛开过去?或者西蒙娜复仇的需要会赢得胜利吗?