The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Neil Young
as Lionel Switch / Frankie Fontaine
Dean Stockwell
as Otto Quartz
Dennis Hopper
as Cracker / Stranger
Sally Kirkland
as Kathryn
Russ Tamblyn
as Fred Kelly
Charlotte Stewart
as Charlotte Goodnight
Pegi Young
as Biker Girl
Mark Mothersbaugh
as Nuclear Garbageperson / Booji Boy
Gerald V. Casale
as Nuclear Garbageperson
Bob Casale
as Nuclear Garbageperson
Robert Mothersbaugh
as Nuclear Garbageperson
Geraldine Baron
as Irene
