Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
Chevy Chase
as Eddie Muntz
Sigourney Weaver
as Mrs. DeVoto
Gregory Hines
as Ray Kasternak
Vince Edwards
as Frank Stryker
William Marquez
as Gen. Cordosa
Eduardo Ricard
as Col. Salgado
Richard Herd
as Lyle
Graham Jarvis
as Babers
Wallace Shawn
as Harold DeVoto
Randi Brooks
as Ms. Della Rosa
Ebbe Roe Smith
as Bob
Richard Libertini
as Masaggi