Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.
Jack Nicholson
as David Staebler
Bruce Dern
as Jason Staebler
Ellen Burstyn
as Sally
Julia Anne Robinson
as Jessica
Scatman Crothers
as Lewis
Charles LaVine
as Grandfather
John P. Ryan
as Surtees
Sully Boyar
as Lebowitz
Josh Mostel
as Frank
Arnold Williams
as Rosko
William Pabst
as Bidlack
Garry Goodrow
as Nervous Man