Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

Jeff Bridges
as Richard Bone

John Heard
as Alex Cutter

Lisa Eichhorn
as Maureen Cutter, 'Mo'

Stephen Elliott
as J. J. Cord

Arthur Rosenberg
as George Swanson

Nina van Pallandt
as Woman in the Hotel

Ann Dusenberry
as Valerie Duran

Patricia Donahue
as Mrs. Cord

Geraldine Baron
as Susie Swanson

Katherine Pass
as Toyota Woman