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.

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Cast

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

Anna Maria Horsford

Slam Dunk

Mitchell Lichtenstein

Artiste

Marjorie Eaton

Mrs. O'Malley