莎拉（瑞贝卡·德·莫妮 Rebecca De Mornay 饰）是一名研究犯罪学的心理学家，工作中，她见识过各种各样冷酷残暴的变态凶手，无数个鲜血淋漓诡异可怖的犯罪现场，没有任何罪犯留下的蛛丝马迹能够逃脱她的眼睛，没有任何威胁和危险能够让她屈服。
　　一次偶然中，莎拉邂逅了名为托尼（安东尼奥·班德拉斯 Antonio Banderas 饰）的男子。风度翩翩温文尔雅的托尼很快就吸引了莎拉的注意，没过多久，两人便坠入了爱河。然而，也就是从这时候起，莎拉的身边开始接二连三的发生离奇的怪事，一股强烈的恶意正在迅速接近着莎拉，而莎拉的直觉告诉她，这一切，都和托尼有着千丝万缕的关联。

　　影片来自于真实的故事，小镇上的记者亚当（约翰·卡拉辛斯基 John Krasinski 饰）和绿色和平组织的一位志愿者瑞秋（德鲁·巴里摩尔 Drew Barrymore 饰）加入到了拯救北极圈灰鲸的行动中去。 两人必须联合阿拉斯加的因纽特人，对抗石油公司以及苏联和美国的军队的反对——在当时的冷战背景下，他们终于得到了世界的关注，冷战的阴影也因拯救这种濒临灭绝的动物行动而得到缓解。

　　Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up.
　　This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit; there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending; later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students; and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!); and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine).
　　It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?