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.

• Universal Pictures
• Donald Sutherland
• Jack Warden
• Sean Penn
• Wallace Shawn
• Larry Riley
• Trinidad Silva
• Christine Baranski
• Charlayne Woodard