Jerry Colker

Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.

A bemused, mild-mannered accountant takes up jogging and a lithesome, young woman sprints into his life, inspiring him to enter a marathon, to the annoyance of his non-running wife.

Two attractive divorcees find that their newly realized independence continues to be guided by their respective parental obligations.