

103 minutes
9/9/1988
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.

Richard Dreyfuss
as Jack Noah

Raúl Juliá
as Roberto Strausmann

Sônia Braga
as Madonna

Jonathan Winters
as Ralph

Sammy Davis Jr.
as Self

Michael Greene
as Clint

Polly Holliday
as Midge

Milton Gonçalves
as Carlo

Charo
as Madame Loop

Marianne Sägebrecht
as Magda

Reinhard Kolldehoff
as Gunther

Richard Russell Ramos
as Dieter Lopez

José Lewgoy
as Archbishop

Dann Florek
as Toby

Roger Aaron Brown
as Desmond

Dana Delany
as Jenny

Dick Cavett
as Self
Ike Pappas
as Self

Ed Asner
as Self

Paul Mazursky
as Momma

Lorin Dreyfuss
as 1st Dictator
John C. Broderick
as Director

David Cale
as Edgar Low

Reuven Bar-Yotam
as Menachem Fein

Rod McCary
as Gordon Boyd
Lora Milligan
as Alice
Jill Mazursky
as Assistant Director
Nina Fineman
as Casting Secretary

Regina Casé
as Clara

Bianca Rossini
as Tilde

Ariel Coelho
as Paulo
Vera Buono
as Nightclub Singer
Ursula Canto
as Showgirl

Guará Rodrigues
as Bearded Man

Giovanna Gold
as Carnival Girl

Carlos Augusto Strazzer
as Drunk on Street
Betsy Mazursky
as Woman at Buffet

Rui Rezende
as Man on the Beach
Flávio R. Tambellini
as Danté Guzman
Antonio Negreiros
as Antonio

Nelson Xavier
as General Sinaldo

Mário Guimarães
as Umberto Solar

Nildo Parente
as Gray Man

Jorge Cherques
as Family Member

Neville D'Almeida
as Family Member

Renato Coutinho
as Family Member

Humberto Catalano
as Family Member

Helvio Soto
as Family Member

Patricio Guzmán
as Family Member

Lutero Luiz
as Samuel

Guilherme Karan
as Forte (uncredited)

Nika Bonfim
as Family Member (uncredited)