Tom(大卫·斯特雷泽恩 David Strathairn 饰)和Gail(梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰)夫妻感情疏远,为了努力弥补缝隙,他们决定带着儿子Roarke(约瑟夫·梅泽罗 Joseph Mazzello 饰)和爱狗进行漂流冒险旅行——Gail曾经勇敢地漂流过铁手套这一令人闻风丧胆的三河交汇处。
途中他们遇见Wade(凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰)、Terry(约翰·C·赖利 John C. Reilly 饰)和Frank,Wade的小手段让Roarke将他推崇为英雄。然而Frank中途无端失踪,突然Wade和Terry露出狰狞的真面目——他们是抢劫巨款潜逃的罪犯,正在逃亡。
Wade利用Tom和Roarke做人质,威胁Gail带他们漂过铁手套。Tom在误打误撞中逃离虎口,和爱狗在下游准备埋伏,勇敢的Gail将第二次挑战铁手套,而且是要救出儿子。早在下游等待的Tom和Gail合力,不仅是战斗,还是再次感受到同甘共苦的爱情。
A comic celebration of dreamers and their dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the second film written and directed by Tom DiCillo. With a tone that teeters somewhere between Kafka and the Marx Brothers, it chronicles the hilarious misadventures of a group of people who have joined together to accomplish one of the most difficult goals imaginable - the making of a low-budget independent film. With an innovative and surprising structure that shifts fluidly between the movie being made and those making it, the film offers a rare and accurate -- if comically heightened -- look behind-the-scenes, with the people who make the scenes. How they make them -- and the fact that they manage to make them at all -- is what LIVING IN OBLIVION is all about.
Starring Steve Buscemi as director Nick Reve, LIVING IN OBLIVION highlights a day on the set of Nick's film where everything that could possibly go wrong, actually does. Struggling against ever-escalating odds to maintain his integrity and his sanity, Nick is both helped and hindered by his bumbling, if well-intentioned crew, headed by his cinematographer Wolf (Dermot Mulroney), a cameraman whose leather gear suggests that he is more inspired by Billy Idol than Sven Nykvist; a leading lady, Nicole (Catherine Keener), a talented but neurotic actress who is involved in a romance and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palomino (James Le Gros); an iron-willed assistant director, Wanda (Danielle Von Zerneck); and, for the first time ever on-screen, a Gaffer.
Rosario works as a street seller on the fairgrounds of the suburbs of Naples. His dream to escape poverty latches onto the musical talent of his daughter Sharon. He turns into an impresario to make her a star of the Italian folk music.
Vova and his best friend Kisa make ends meet by working for the local thug in Vladivostock, Russia until one assignment forces them to question their own morality and puts their friendship to the ultimate test.