After the sudden and mysterious death of her sister, a 17-year-old novitiate explores her God-given right to experience life to the fullest, during the summer of 1900 in Switzerland.
在经营了多年的桌球室里，艾迪（保罗·纽曼 Paul Newman饰）发现了一个优质的桌球苗子——文森（汤姆·克鲁斯 Tom Cruise饰）。文森暗藏着艾迪当年在桌球台上的风采，令艾迪决心收他为徒，助他在桌球事业上大显身手。于是，艾迪、文森和文森的女友，一同前往大西洋城参加大赛。 一路上，文森参加了不少小型比赛，虽然和艾迪之间不断有分歧，但也赢回不少金钱。同时，艾迪在培养文森的过程中，内心对桌球的热爱又重新被唤起，他重新拿起球杆，不料却败北而归。失落的艾迪决定离开文森，一个人苦练球技重振雄风。当踌躇满怀的艾迪重回大西洋赛场，却发现文森成为了自己的对手。 此时的文森对金钱的追求，已经远远超过了桌球本身。艾迪和文森的比赛成为一场尊严与金钱之战。
While the hot rodders and motorcyclists are having a rock-and-roll beach party, a barrel of radioactive material is unloaded from a passing ship, plunges to the bottom and splits against a jagged rock. A black liquid oozes out and covers a shapeless mass on the ocean floor, which suddenly moves and becomes an encrusted vicious monster. Soon there are several monsters and they must have human blood to survive. Tina is the first victim, and football hero Hank Green and airhead Elaine Gavin enlist the aid of her science-professor father, Dr. Gavin, to solve and capture the killer. Not working fast enough to prevent the attack on twenty teen-agers at a slumber party nor the killing of three girl motorists, Dr. Gavin finds an arm lost by one of the monsters and discovers that only sodium will destroy the monsters whose composition is mostly water. Can they gather enough salt in southern California to put an end to this horror
