Escaped convict Jack Hammond takes a woman hostage and sets off for the Mexican border with the police hot on his tail.
The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a thirty-something writer suffering from the early onset of midlife crisis brought on by nostalgia, his dying friend and the wedding of his old flame.
A sign language scholar's romance is disrupted by a chimp.
Howard F. Howard idolizes The Three Stooges. His friends and familiy are worried, and consider having him committed.