汤姆（尼克·诺特 Nick Nolte 饰）是一个典型的美国南方青年，早年间不堪回首的童年经历让他成长为了一个沉默寡言愤世嫉俗的男人，同这个虚与委蛇的世界格格不入。哥哥的死讯让汤姆本来就一团糟的生活陷入了更加彻底的颓废之中，他和妻子莎莉（布莱思·丹纳 Blythe Danner 饰）之间的感情亦因此遭遇了巨大的危机。 　　汤姆有一个名为沙凡娜（梅林达·狄龙 Melinda Dillon 饰）只身一人在纽约闯荡，然而，她扬名立万的消息并非传来，传来的却是沙凡娜自杀未遂住进了精神病院的噩耗。苏珊（芭芭拉·史翠珊 Barbra Streisand 饰）是沙凡娜的主治医生，她发现了苏珊绝口不提的过去里隐藏着治愈她的秘方。于是，苏珊找到了汤姆，希望他能够助自己一臂之力。

从森林的狩猎之旅归来时，亨德森一家的汽车撞到了路上的一只动物。起初他们担心撞到了一个人，但当他们检查这个"尸体"时，发现它是一只"大脚怪"。他们以为它已经死了，所以决定带回家（这可能会有些钱可赚）。正如你猜到的那样，它并没有死。远非他们担心的凶猛怪物，"哈利"其实是一只友好的巨人。

The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and disappeared. Chief Richland is disgusted by the murder and starts an intensive investigation. In flashbacks we learn about the history of the disaster.

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.