When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?

An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up for unemployment. One day they find him a job: teaching thinking skills to Army recruits. He arrives on base to find that there is no structure set up for the class.

A pharmaceutical sales rep visits a small town in Louisiana on business. He finds himself in a dark world of corruption and murder with 24 hours to live, running from the police, the mob and a sheriff that wants him dead.

影片故事发生在导演的出生地——纽约。主人公是一对纽约夫妇，他们“制造小袋的海洛因就如面包师把面包放在烤炉里一样”，他们生活却和常人一样，到了圣诞节也去采购，给孩子准备礼物等等。但丈夫突然被警察逮捕，小家庭的一切被打破，妻子甚至只能用肉体来交换丈夫的生命。费拉拉再次对“生存权力”提出一些启示。

1995 film by Tony Scott

1993 film directed by Robert De Niro