George is the scapegoat of his classmates. One day he cracks and shoots them. His best and only friend Blaise is accused in his place and sentenced to 7 years in a psychiatric hospital. At the day of his release, Blaise realizes he only has one family: his best friend George. But he does not want to hear about his childhood friend, as he tries to integrate with the "Chivers" a gang whose members wear red jackets and boots, drink milk, drive sport trucks and play an incomprehensible and violent game that mixes cricket and mental arithmetic.

　　1982年冬天，挪威科考隊的一架直升機突然打破了南極大陸的平靜，直升機瘋狂的追逐一只雪橇犬，最后墜毀在美國科考營地的附近。美國科考隊員對挪威考察隊近期人員驟減的情況有所耳聞，于是飛行員麥克（Kurt Russell 飾）與眾人趕赴挪威營地，結果看到的是一地破敗中四處散落著奇怪的尸體，并有證據表明挪威人得到了某種冰封狀態中的生物。醫生布萊爾（Wilford Brimley 飾）研究了尸體的變異卻無法破解成因。當晚，犬籠中的狗遭到襲擊并發生了變異，一種不可知的生物正在這孤寂的南極大陸威脅著科考隊員們的生命……　　本片翻拍自1951年由霍華德?霍克斯指導的《The Thing From Another World》。

　　父親與少年關系生疏，兩人決定以一次狩獵之行緩釋心結，然而深藏在森林中的灰熊，卻早已為他們埋下了生存危機。

內布拉斯加州，1991年，兩個最好的朋友有機會經營游泳池小吃店，后來成為越軌、娛樂、個人發現和浪漫的完美場景。