律师比利（罗伯特·约翰·伯克 Robert John Burke 饰）是一个体型硕大的胖子，他一直都在减肥，但从来没有成功。作为一名颠倒黑白的律师，他和检察官及法官的暗地勾结让他获得了不小的成功。一次交通意外中，比利撞死了一个吉普赛老妇人。在法庭上，借由职务之便，比利通过非法的渠道获得了无罪判决，对受害者亲人的愤怒和悲痛视若无睹。从此之后，好运似乎降临在了比利的身上，一直以来令他困扰的体重居然开始...
Set in 1989, Jake (Harmon), an out-of-work photojournalist who struggles with addiction and a troubled past, takes a job as watchman of a wilderness lodge on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest...
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi f...