When 4 American tourists - Sofia, Carl, Belle and Michael - go on a ghost tour, they get much more than they bargained for, when the ghosts of an evil Doctor and his last patient victim trap them in the old abandoned psychiatric ward.
Jimmy Sutton, tricky publicist for Consolidated Pictures, fetches teacher Trudi Hovland from snowy Minnesota to sunny Hollywood to test for the film of the best-seller "Girl of the North" - having come 436th in a competition several years earlier she is now next choice as leading lady. She gets the part, but despite his own growing attraction for her Jimmy deviously manufactures a romance between her and Roger Maxwell, a new star who desperately needs to pep-up his image.
金波医生(Harrison Ford 饰)的妻子在家中被人谋杀,虽然金波当晚撞见独臂凶手并与之搏斗,但是凶手终于逃走,金波本人却因种种不利证据被判定为谋杀罪。在押解前往监狱的途中,一名犯人试图逃脱造成狱车事故,金波在混乱中搭救了一名警员并趁夜色逃逸。赶到事故现场的联邦司法官山姆(Tommy Lee Jones 饰)接手此案追捕金波,山姆为人精明强干,作风强硬,更重要的是,他怀有一颗探求真相的正义之心。山姆带队与金波展开了节奏紧凑的追捕与反追捕,金波在四面无援的困境中,依靠为爱妻报仇的意念坚持了下来,并将山姆引向此案的真相。原来某大制药厂为使一种失败的新药通过审查,动用了篡改医疗报告等不法手段,不肯合作的金波于是成为了他们暗杀的对象…… 本片获1994年奥斯卡最佳男配角奖等多项褒奖。