A beautiful black gangster's moll flees to Harlem with a trunkload of gold after a shootout, unaware that the rest of the gang, and a few other unsavoury characters, are on her trail. A pudgy momma's boy becomes the object of her affections and the unlikely hero of the tale.

Forest Whitaker
as Jackson

Gregory Hines
as Goldy

Robin Givens
as Imabelle

Danny Glover
as Easy Money

Samm-Art Williams
as Gus Parsons

Zakes Mokae
as Big Kathy

T.K. Carter
as Smitty

Stack Pierce
as Coffin Ed

Anthonia Kitchen
as Mourner

Screamin' Jay Hawkins
as Self