spoiler jog through the street of nyc well know motivational speaker and former womens pga golf champion louise lou dalamere and ally sheedy and get attack by this masked weirdo with a stick ball bat who almost kill her . after recover from her injury lou and her live in girlfriend alex patsy kensit and take a ride out to her country house in far out shealter island . it just happen to be that at the time that lou and alex get to the house a major storm hit the island and knock out all the electricity and telephone line leave the two woman alone and cut off from the outside world . just then lenny and stephen baldwin and the local clam digger get sweep up out of the ocean and drop right into lou home . agree to let lenny stay over until the storm blow over lou and alex soon realize that he anything but grateful to them for practically save his life . lenny impose himself on the two woman and with off color remark about their lesbian relationship and and make a total jerk of himself by also try to hit on to alex and right in front of her startled lover lou . thus do his best to out stay his very brief and unwanted welcome at the dalamere house . it obvious from the start that lenny be anything but a stranded clam digger or even an shealter island resident but be part of some off the wall scheme to do in lou and take off with her money make it look like her death be a drowning accident . it also obvious that lenny be the guy who attack lou earlier in the film in new york city that leave her almost dead and that this time and in secluded shealter island and he be go to finish the job that he start back there . what we do not know about lenny be that he anything but alone in his attempt to murder lou and have a lot more help in do it then we and the audience and and lou may think . stephen baldwin together with ally sheedy and patsy kensit be about a odd a trio a you would ever see in a motion picture . in most of their scene together they come across so absurd that you at first thought that the scene be badly do out take that for some reason or mistake and or maybe even practical joke and end up get edit back into the movie . there be also the local shealter island sheriff deluca and chris penn and who also get into the act later in the movie and after you forget all about him and think that his brainless action earlier be just comic relief . sheriff deluca be also one of the major player in the plot to do in poor lou . the end of the movie be about a anti climatic a you could make it with the only major actor in the film who and up to then and have nothing to do with the plot to murder and legally steal lou money end up be the mastermind of this whole crazy and unbelievable scenario .