Marlon Hoffman

Evocation de Kansas City, ville de tous les dangers, dans les années trente à travers les aventures d'une jeune télégraphiste qui kidnappe la femme d'un homme politique influent afin d'obtenir la libération de l'homme qu'elle aime, petit malfrat tombé dans les griffes des gangsters.

Jack is a middle aged, overweight shoe store owner with a secure upper middle class lifestyle, including a beautiful, demanding trophy wife. When Jack "runs into" Rosie and Louie, small time criminals on the run from the law, they kidnap Jack in order to use his off-season, deserted vacation house as a temporary hideout. A thoroughly bizarre and surprising weekend unfolds, full of revelations and reassessments.

An ambitious filmmaker sets out to make an avant-garde film but soon learns the only way he can secure financing is if he shows Jessica Hahn's breasts. Also, two old women are magically transformed into young starlets.