Sometimes a thief can steal your heart. Richard Gere gives "a breakthrough performance" (Time) as a rockin' 'n' rollin'; hustlin' and bustlin' crook in a film about chasing after your dreams no matter how high the stakes.Jesse Lujack (Gere) is a smalltime car thief who loves livin'; Jerry Lee Lewis and his Silver Surfer comic books. But most of all; Jesse loves Monica (Valerie Kaprisky); the sexy French architecture student he just met in Vegas. Determined to provide her with the good life; Jesse uses all his rockabilly charm to convince the resistant Monica to drop everything and join him on a trip to sunny Mexico. In a fire-red Caddy with the top down and the woman he loves finally at his side; Jesse feels on top of the world. But no matter how much rubber he burns; there's something that Jesse just can't outrun. As he races faster and faster away from his past and toward his dreams; Jesse must keep everything that's important to himespecially Monicaclose by his side...or risk losing them forever!