"Everything is hotter down south." A God-fearing bluesman (Jackson) takes to a wild young woman (Ricci) who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.

"The world's greatest leader is a hostage in the most dangerous place on Earth. Now only the deadliest man alive can save him." In 1998, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant max. security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue.