A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Dan Aykroyd
as Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
Howard Hesseman
as Smooth Walker
Donna Dixon
as Monica McNeil
Lydia Lei
as Jasmine Wu
T.K. Carter
as Diavolo Washington
Lynn Whitfield
as Thelma Cleland
Fran Drescher
as Karen Blittstein
Kate Murtagh
as Mom
Nan Martin
as Margaret Skridlow
George Furth
as Arthur Skridlow
Peter Elbling
as Guptor
John A. Maloney
as Commodore