After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.

• PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
• Propaganda Films
• Nicolas Cage
• Laura Dern
• Willem Dafoe
• J.E. Freeman
• Crispin Glover
• Diane Ladd
• Calvin Lockhart
• Isabella Rossellini