Two terminally ill men with nothing in common except that they share a room in a cancer ward decide make a list of things they always wanted to do and escape to fullfill the wishes on their list.

The story of the legendary Teamster Boss whose mysterious disappearance has never been explained. The film traces Hoffa's passionate struggle to shape the nation's most influential labor union, his relationship with the Mob and his prison term.

A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy. A seemingly routine matrimonial snooping job for a private detective mushrooms into a murderous scandal...