and coworker Hal Foss. Mary Tate and Craig begin a passionate relationship, but trouble erupts when he tries to integrate her into his country-club scene. At a party at the club, which features Santo performing with a country group, Craig's friends mock Santo as a "freak" and an outcast. A fight nearly breaks out between Halsey and Blake but is broken up. Halsey and his friend Packman formulate a plan to embarrass Santo. When Santo takes the stage, Halsey and Packman drunkenly heckle him and the band. Santo tries to ignore it but soon stops playing his violin and leaves the party. Craig tries to convince Mary Tate to see him for who he really is, and not for his snobbish friends and surroundings. When Jabo realizes that Blake will not purchase the building, he plies Thor and his assistant Newton with drugs, booze and hookers. The Mr. Universe competition arrives and Santo is hoping to beat his rival Dougie Stewart. While Thor is drunk and distracted with the prostitutes, Newton secretly stashes the prize money inside his bag and flees. Blake visits the gym and engages in a fight with the drunken and drugged Thor. He finds Mary Tate, who earlier had been assaulted by Thor in an amyl nitrite-fueled rage. When the Mr. Universe contestants discover that the prize money has been stolen, they run after Santo, who is running to meet Mary Tate. The chase of bodybuilders pours out into the streets of Birmingham and attracts an amazed crowd of onlookers. The bodybuilders engage in an impromptu posing routine for the crowd. Craig sarcastically derides his former bosses at the real-estate firm and goes into the gym business with Santo. Craig mocks Jabo with an exaggerated bodybuilding pose and moves out of his family's mansion, leaving his old family memorabilia to his butler. Cast Jeff Bridges as Craig Blake Sally Field as Mary Tate Farnsworth Arnold Schwarzenegger as Joe Santo R. G. Armstrong as Thor Erickson Robert Englund as Franklin Helena Kallianiotes as Anita Roger E. Mosley as Newton Woodrow Parfrey as Uncle Albert Scatman Crothers as William Kathleen Miller as Dorothy Stephens Fannie Flagg as Amy Joanna Cassidy as Zoe Richard Gilliland as Hal Mayf Nutter as Richard Packman Ed Begley Jr. as Lester John David Carson as Halsey Joe Spinell as Jabo Clifford A. Pellow as Walter Jr. (credited as Cliff Pellow) Dennis Fimple as