A petty crook falls in love with the woman cop who always arrests him, but when they find out she can't bear children, they steal one, and hit the road.

H.I. "Hi" McDonnough is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who has been arrested so often that he gets to know "Ed," short for Edwina, the officer who takes his mug shots. Hi takes a shine to Ed and promises to go straight if she marries him. She accepts, and they move to the Arizona desert, where Hi holds down a factory job and blissfully watches the sunsets with Ed. Their serenity is shattered when the couple decides that they want a child and discover that they can’t conceive. Ed goes into a severe depression until she sees an item in the news. Nathan Arizona, owner of a chain of unpainted furniture stores, has become the father of quintuplets, and he and his wife joke that they now have more children than they know what to do with. In what seems like a perfect "helps you, helps me" situation, Hi and Ed kidnap one of the Arizona infants, figuring that they'll have a baby and the Arizonas will have less of a burden.

Uloge:
Nicolas Cage (H.I. McDunnough), Holly Hunter (Edwina McDunnough), Trey Wilson (Nathan Arizona), John Goodman (Gale Snoats), William Forsythe (Evelle Snoats) i drugi.