Dennis Madden

The closing years of the nineteenth century Old West. Dry River tells the story of a Mexican border town ravaged by severe drought, with the only water source controlled by a family of American renegades on the trail for a legend of lost gold. When a Mexican stranger arrives to reclaim his father’s land, a violent confrontation will cause the lives of all to be forever transformed.

A troubled young black teenager Maxine rescues an eccentric old lady Eve from an unhappy slap by a mixed-race gang of teens and is rewarded for her act of kindness with the gift of a terrible secret: how to make and operate a WISHBABY. With Eve's help Maxine gives life to a magic doll and sets out to solve her current problems, inadvertently releasing Eve's dead Governess from her astral prison and unleashing a storm of supernatural activity. Her older brother Colin is gradually drawn into the dangerous situation created by the 'Little King' and must finally face his own mother in a brutal fight to the death.

腕はいいが問題ばかり起こし、上司のトッド警部からも見放されたような状態のデトロイト市警察本部の若手刑事・アクセル（エディ・マーフィー）は、ビバリーヒルズからやってきた幼馴染のマイキーと再会するが、その夜にマイキーが殺害される。マイキーの仇討ちを決意したアクセルは、犯人を追って単独でビバリーヒルズに乗り込み、規則に忠実で洗練された地元（ビバリーヒルズ警察）の刑事達と衝突しつつも巨悪に迫る。