本片讲述了意大利黑手党格莫拉的5个故事：13岁男童托托（萨尔瓦多?阿布鲁兹Salvatore Abruzzese 饰）近墨者黑，逐渐堕落；马可（马可?马克尔 Marco Macor 饰）和希罗（希罗?帕冲Ciro Petrone 饰）一心想称霸，结果横尸街头；因为丈夫涉黑，妻子玛利亚（玛利亚?纳棕娜丽 Maria Nazionale 饰）锒铛入狱，她把孩子托付给帮派同伙弗兰克（托尼?瑟维洛 Toni Servillo 饰）；黑帮老会计唐?希洛（吉安法利斯?因巴拉多Gianfelice Imparato 饰），因出卖朋友，命丧黄泉；黑帮纺织厂的裁缝帕里跨斯（萨尔瓦多?坎德鲁普Salvatore Cantalupo 饰）因给华人上课而引火烧身……
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列宁格勒牛仔摇滚乐队的几个成员装扮怪异，戴大墨镜，烫飞机头，夸张的火箭鞋就是他们的标志。可在他们的家乡看不见事业成功的希望，于是他们决定转战美国寻求机会，在即将出发的前夜，贝斯手却被冻死，尽管如此，队员们还是将他装入了放满冰块的木箱中带上了旅途。此时同村的一个怪异的哑巴 偷偷跟随乐队来到了纽约。纽约的机会并不如他们想象的丰富，困窘的生活仍在继续，在他们走投无路之时，得到了一个来自墨西哥的婚宴演出机会。于是他们用仅剩的钱从一个美国售货员（吉姆•贾木许 Jim Jarmusch 饰）手中买了一辆旧车后继续向墨西哥进发，那里有他们最后的梦想……
Will
Grace are best friends. Will is a gay lawyer and Grace is a straight interior designer. They both live in New York. Grace is engaged to a real jerk, but when that relationship falls apart, she moves in with Will. This is only supposed to be until Grace finds a place of her own, but she and Will end up with each other as permanent roommates. Also in the cast are Jack, Will's flamboyant gay friend and Karen, Graces' secretaryassistant who doesn't really need to work because she married money several times.
