

“The Comedy that dreams the impossible scheme!”
Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles onto a scheme by some of the boss's disgruntled misfit clients to rob the place. Rather than blow the whistle, however, he insinuates himself as the heist's mastermind.
Directed by Louis Malle
User score
35 votes




Released
February 17, 1984
1h 38m
English, Spanish
Budget → Revenue
$12M → $129.3K

Donald Sutherland
Westlake

Jack Warden
Garvey

Sean Penn
Dillard

Wallace Shawn
Turtle

Larry Riley
Boardwalk

Trinidad Silva
Ramon

Christine Baranski
Maxine

Charlayne Woodard
Jasmine

Tasia Valenza
Maria
Irwin Corey
Lazzarelli
Edouard DeSoto
Don Fernando

Anna Maria Horsford
Slam Dunk

Mitchell Lichtenstein
Artiste

Marjorie Eaton
Mrs. O'Malley
Ed Call
Officer Darney

Joseph Hindy
Officer Ronnie
Charles Bouvier
Cable Man
Dick Bright
Guy
Paul Drake
Guy
Edward Corbett
Kurnitz