Un crocodile géant grandit dans les égouts de Chicago en se nourrissant de déchets provenant de laboratoires. Il décide un jour de remonter à la surface...
Un homme nommé Hesher, mystérieux, asocial, fan de métal et sujet à des crises de folies passagères, s'incruste chez T.J., un jeune garçon de 13 ans, et son père dépressif, totalement à la dérive depuis la mort de sa femme... Redoutant les réactions de cet homme violent et instable, T.J. ne dit mot et supporte cette présence envahissante sans broncher. Souvent menaçant et totalement imprévisible, Hesher va profondément bouleverser la vie entachée par le deuil du jeune garçon et de son père.
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who pretends Colin abused her. Col is thrown off the team just after it qualified for the league finals in Blackpool. He decides to travel there alone, hoping to win her back.
Two gangsters, fighting for influence in the city, decide to get suitcases filled with money and drugs. Meanwhile, another criminal group has the same purpose.
Anna's marriage is on the rocks after her husband John discovered she was having an affair with a much younger man. Confronted by her other half in the honeymoon suite of a Stratford-Upon-Avon hotel, Anna must try to save their marriage, deal with hapless hotel staff and come up with a plan to get through the experience. Unknown to either John or Anna, the suite’s bathroom is occupied by a semi-naked and comatose 21-year-old, who’s trying to sleep off a stag do.