H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.

Scott Glenn
as H.D. Dalton

Kate Capshaw
as Jolie

Ben Johnson
as Jesse Dalton

Tess Harper
as Cheryl

Gary Busey
as Clint Hornby

Balthazar Getty
as Jud

Clarence Williams III
as Deputy Sheriff Virgil

Mickey Rooney
as Junion

Cynthia Mackey
as Ambulance Attendant

Bill Clymer
as Rodeo Announcer (voice)