Recently widowed Shelby Naylor (Sherilyn Fenn) listening to her husbands police scanner overhears a husband and wife arguing on the phone. The wife ends up dead and Widow Naylor points the finger endangering herself.
El policía Jack Friar (Samuel L. Jackson) se encuentra muy abatido y necesita tomarse unas vacaciones fuera de la ciudad para dedicarse a su verdadera pasión: el violonchelo. Cuando está a punto de salir de viaje, una vecina le pide ayuda para encontrar a su hija que se ha fugado con su novio. Jack acepta, aunque a regañadientes. Sólo tiene dos pistas: una foto de la pareja y el nombre de la calle, donde supuestamente vive el novio de la chica.
In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas spirits who would change her miserly ways for the better.
When both the CIA and the underworld mistake regular guy Stuart Dempsey (Danny Nucci) for a notorious killer-for-hire named Jaguar, Dempsey doesn't know whom he can turn to or trust. Certain only of his boss, Max Kaufman (David Carradine), Dempsey is wary of everyone else -- especially his new love (Victoria Sanches). Pursued by the CIA, Dempsey sets out to prove his identity and outwit his pursuers.