befriends Carmine. Bruno Kirby as Victor Ray, Carmine's nephew. Penelope Ann Miller as Tina Sabatini, Carmine's daughter. Frank Whaley as Steve Bushak, Clark's roommate. Jon Polito as Chuck Greenwald, a corrupt operative of the Department of Justice's Fish and Wildlife Division who targets Carmine and has ties with the Bonelli crime family. Paul Benedict as Arthur Fleeber, a professor at New York University. Richard Gant as Lloyd Simpson, also a corrupt operative of the Department of Justice's Fish and Wildlife Division and Greenwald's partner who targets Carmine and has ties with the Bonelli crime family. Kenneth Welsh as Dwight Armstrong, Clark's animal activist stepfather. Pamela Payton-Wright as Liz Armstrong, Clark's mother. BD Wong as Edward, one of Carmine's associates. Maximilian Schell as Larry London, Carmine's partner and the chef of the Gourmet Club. Bert Parks as himself (he sings a song at the Gourmet Club). David Was and Don Was make uncredited cameos as two band members of the Gourmet Club's party band. Production Bergman got the idea of the film after reading a newspaper article about mobster Vincent Teresa being arrested for smuggling a near-extinct lizard into the United States. Brando was cast in 1988, and was paid $3 million base salary. Bergman said that "the most fun I ever had" as a filmmaker "was once Marlon [Brando] committed to play the character Jimmy the Toucan... Rewriting that [script], knowing Marlon was going to be saying all those lines? It was absolutely heaven.... On one level you're like, I'm going to direct this guy!? But at the end of the day you say, well, somebody’s got to direct him, so what the hell, it's going to be me. And he was really a pleasure to work with. It's not like you’re dealing with George Burns in terms of a comedy god. Getting Marlon to do things was sometimes like turning around an aircraft carrier because he had a way he wanted to do it. But you could get him there. He was terribly respectful and funny." Bergman says Matthew Broderick "was very hot at the time. He was impossible to get—he was like the hottest thing going!" but he agreed to do the film because of Brando. "Once Marlon was in the picture, you could get any actor you want... Olivier wanted to be in the movie [instead of Max Schell] but he was too sick." Principal photography was