The decadent lives of assorted amoral residents of Eighties Los Angeles, including an ageing newsreader, a successful movie producer, a drug-addled rock star and a hotel doorman drawn into kidnapping, interweave over the course of a week. Drama based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke and Winona Ryder.

A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.