Life couldn’t get any worse for advertising executive Nick Beam (TIM ROBBINS). The plug to his connection with reality has just been ripped out after finding his adoring wife Ann (KELLY PRESTON), at home in flagrante delicto with his boss. In a state of near catatonic shock, Nick drives away unable to get a grip on anything but the steering wheel. Then, while sitting dazed and confused at a traffic light, a fast-talking carjacker named T. Paul (MARTIN LAWRENCE) pulls open the door, and shoves a gun in his face. Already past the point of who cares, and with nothing to lose, Nick casts away all common sense and turns the tables on his mugger, taking him hostage.

Over the long haul of a madcap road trip, complete with hold-ups, mistaken identities and revenge, an unlikely friendship gradually unfolds between this Odd Couple of losers.