Rob, 12 ans, découvre un tigre du Bengale caché dans les bois. L\'animal est retenu captif par un propriétaire d\'un motel sans scrupules. Avec l\'aide de Willie May et d\'une camarade d\'école, le garçon va tenter de rendre la liberté au tigre...

Rodney is a former boxing champ who, after a deathbed visit to his trainer and mentor, is propelled into reclaiming victory for his now simple life as a nightclub bouncer. He partners with a no-nonsense, lesbian photographer and an aspiring starlet to make a compromising tape with Isaac?a married, devout, Orthodox Jewish real estate mogul?that sets off a chain of events that brings down an empire.