Katelyn 'Kate' Weston, a country girl who became a lawyer and joined an L.A. law firm years ago, specializes in defending minors having committed violent crimes who nobody else takes on. She gradually got estranged from her family, but then her older brother Ryan asks her to return to the farm he runs with their dad Thane who has become impossibly absentminded. By the time he is formally diagnosed with serious Alzheimer, she realizes how badly she really knew her family, having ran from her past after the trauma of witnessing her mother's suicide at age seven, and tries to talk it trough with Ryan and dad while he still has lucid moments.

马戏团的大象在一次表演中无法站立，因此马戏团决定放弃这头大象而继续前往巴黎表演。在马戏团工作的女孩也被团长遗下，和运送大象去安乐死的货车司机，一路前行。 一路上大象带给途人无数欢乐，而只有女孩和司机知道它的命运……

美国硬汉警署探员科尔，到了墨西哥寻找他的记者前妻萨拉，发现前妻跟他最好的朋友在一起了，并且有人将她前妻绑架来陷害他的好友入狱，科尔追查前妻下落的过程中，邂逅了美丽性感的墨西哥姑娘格蕾丝，一场误会后发现原来格蕾丝是萨拉的好朋友和同事，科尔在格蕾丝的帮助下，一路艰险终于救出了前妻萨拉，过程中又跟格蕾丝通过接触产生了爱情，所有问题迎刃而解后，科尔回归警署，还有多少惊险的故事等待着硬汉科尔。

特里普来到银行换钱，刚跟女柜员凯琳搭上话，却悲催的碰到银行被打劫。银行保安系统开启，所有人都成了笼中之鸟。而更巧合的是居然有两伙抢劫犯。由此一段阴差阳错中展开的猫鼠大战拉开序幕。无辜的人质跟笨拙的劫匪间处处周旋，波澜中高潮不断。

故事设定在1979年，讲述一群青少年拿着Super 8摄影机（在当时流行的一种家用摄影机的胶片格式）自制电影，结果拍到了外星人。 1979年夏天，一群朋友在俄亥俄州的小镇游玩，拿着超8毫米摄影机拍电影，目睹了一场悲惨的火车撞车事故，随即便怀疑这并不是一场普通的事故。