Chicago evidence detective Wayne Dobie (De Niro) is a shy soft-spoken man who hasn't drawn his gun in fifteen years. His fellow cops have jokingly nicknamed him ""Mad Dog"" for his lack of guts. But when Dobie inadvertently saves the life of Frank Milo (Murray) a local gangster and loan shark who moonlights as a stand-up comic he becomes the unwilling recipient of an unusual thank you present: a beautiful young bartender named Glory (Thurman) for one week. Before the week is out the two have fallen deeply in love making for a potentially murderous showdown with Milo. Now Dobie must at last live up to his ""Mad Dog"" nickname or it will be ""no guts no glory"" in this unique and heartwarming comedy.
It all begins like the perfect day for ex-cop now ex-con Ray Mercer (Peter Weller). He finally gets out of jail is met by his stunningly beautiful wife visits a Las Vegas casino and wins a massive jackpot. But having gently tapped him on the shoulder Lady Luck is now about to punch Ray very hard in the face. Still on parole he shouldn’t even be in the casino his unfaithful wife wants a divorce and suddenly he’s caught up in a brutal heist that’s gone catastrophically wrong. And as the bodies start piling up higher that the casino’s chips the trouble really starts when mysterious gangster ‘The Butcher’ arrives...
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