Richter Boudreau is a son of local celebrity Cynthia who is not very successful and works as a film critic for local newspaper. In a short time he loses his job, heritage, and one of his "friends" starts to blackmail him. His only hope is that others around him are even bigger dummies.
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree.
当局的科研机关巴托工业园收养了苍蝇之子马丁·布朗多(艾瑞克·斯托罗兹 Eric Stoltz饰),由巴托工业的老总巴托先生(约翰·盖兹 John Getz饰)抚养。