在去世之前，杰克（尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰）的母亲贝恩（安妮·班克罗夫特 Anne Bancroft 饰）反复告诫自己的儿子，希望他这辈子不要结婚，这在杰克的脑海里留下了极强的暗示。一转眼四年过去，杰克和女友贝特西（莎拉·杰西卡·帕克 Sarah Jessica Parker 饰）之间的感情趋于稳定，眼看着杰克一点都没有想要结婚的意思，贝特西急了。 无奈之下，杰克只能违背自己的誓言，他和贝特西一起飞往拉斯维加斯，准备在那里完婚。让杰克没有想到的是，大赌徒科曼（詹姆斯·凯恩 James Caan 饰）一眼就相中了美丽性感的贝特西，一想到自己的未婚妻即将成为别的男人的情人，杰克就觉得无法忍受，他决定给予科曼激烈的反击。On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée. Suddenly the man is insanely jealous, and pursues his fiancée and her rich companion, but finds pitfalls in his path as the gambler tries to delay his interference.
