前身为警察的菲利浦马洛（埃利奥特·古尔德 Elliott Gould 饰）现在干起了私家侦探的活计，日韩尽管他做事极为低调极力避免被卷入麻烦的漩涡，日韩但麻烦事仿佛长了眼睛，紧咬着他不放。这次亦然，当老友深夜找到马洛让他将自己送出境外时，看着他躲闪的目光，经验老道的马洛心中就有了不详的预感。果不其然，不久之后，警察就以协助老友杀害妻子的名义将马洛捉拿归案。在得知了朋友命丧黄泉的消息之后，对朋友的清白深信不疑的马洛发誓要找到事件的真相。与此同时，一个美艳的妇人找到马洛，委托他寻找自己酗酒而又粗暴的丈夫。两件看似无关的案件，却再暗地里相互关联，不知不觉中深陷阴谋中心的马洛这次还能和往常一样化险为夷吗？
戴夫帕德乐队
回复 :The lady is Mrs. Hilyard, a wealthy poetess who lives in a three-story city mansion and her cage is her elevator, which stops a dozen feet short of the main floor due to an electrical failure on a July 4th weekend. She rings her outside alarm, eventually noticed by a drunken derelict, who breaks into the house, ignores her plight and helps himself to various items and alcohol. He leaves with his loot but returns a while later with a plump prostitute and three teenage hoodlums, who proceed to terrorize Mrs. Hilyard as they wreck her home.
哀同丝
回复 :卡洛斯是个自从妻子去世以后就再也离不开家也再也写不出什么东西的犯罪小说家。出版社派了一个助手去他家帮助他写作。卡洛斯将她幻想成自己的亡妻，不想让这第二次爱情的机会溜走，他决定不惜付出一切代价把她留在自己身边，而她一次又一次试图逃脱。
米儿丝
回复 :聚焦詹姆斯和艾米，他们年轻富有、处于热恋中，在费用全包的度假村海岛和闪闪发光的海滩享受假期。但在酒店门外，存在着更危险、更诱人的东西，让人飘飘欲仙。
