Suspected of murdering a teenage girl, Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges), a laidback Santa Barbara boat salesman and gigolo, turns to his best friend, Alex Cutter (John Heard), a disabled Vietnam veteran, for help in finding the real killer. But Bone gets more than he bargained for when Cutter pushes the envelope and, instead of contacting the police, tries to blackmail their suspect… and their suspect, instead of giving in, violently turns the tables on them!
Trapped between the killer and the cops, Cutter and Bone begin a cunning game of cat-and-mouse that ignites into a full-blown war.
