The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.

改編自美國小說家杭特湯普森作品，強尼戴普飾演一個赴波多黎各工作的記者，遇到各種光怪陸離的經歷和奇人異事，片中波多黎各的風景美不勝收。 作家保羅坎柏（強尼戴普飾）從紐約市啟程到位於波多黎各的某家殘破小報社應徵記者職務，尋找有趣的採訪題材和全新生活。保羅很快適應了波多黎各的醉醺醺生活，並愛上了當地房地產掮客薩德森（亞倫艾克哈特飾）的性感未婚妻雪諾（安珀荷德飾）。與薩德森熟識後，保羅發現薩德森意圖透過官商勾結手段將波多黎各某個美麗小島商業化，建造飯店大發觀光財，薩德森誘惑保羅為他們文字包裝這整個醜陋計畫，保羅需要錢，但是又敵不過心中的良知，他應該要如何做抉擇呢?

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.

In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.

Melinda Clarke stars as the latex-clad Candy, a beautiful bank robber hiding out at a desert gas station run by nuns while awaiting her boyfriend's release from prison. After being exposed to a falling piece of alien meteorite, Candy grows an extremely long homicidal tongue with a taste for human flesh, while her pet poodles--who have also been exposed--transform into flamboyant drag queens.

An American cowboy living in Mexico discovers his cattle is being eaten by a giant prehistoric dinosaur.