Journalist and armchair thrill-seeker Jan Richman gets a freelance assignment to write about the nation's old-fashioned roller coasters, and she takes off across the U.S. to report on a fanatical sub-culture. This picaresque research junket dovetails with the wedding of her Tourette's-riddled father, whom she hasn't seen in years. Brazenly erotic and stingingly funny, Thrill-Bent zooms from Coney Island to New Orleans to Salt Lake City then to the San Fernando Valley as our heroine learns how to be truly impulsive in a buttoned-down world.