Família volta da Flórida para Chicago, trazendo filhote de jacaré. O pai, querendo se livrar do problema de criar o réptil, joga o filhote na privada. Ele sobrevive e, nos esgotos, alimenta-se de lixo radioativo, tornando-se monstro gigantesco que sai às ruas da cidade fazendo vítimas.

O longa conta a história de um garoto que depois de perder a mãe, se muda para a casa da avó junto com seu pai. O pai está destruído, em depressão e sem nenhuma perspectiva de vida. Resta ao garoto encontrar novas pessoas na nova cidade. E ele acaba se encontrando com Hesher, um rapaz que odeia o mundo e tudo que há nele. O encontro acaba mudando a vida do garoto e de sua família, mas principalmente a vida de Hesher.

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.