H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.
Stuart Rosenberg
Director
Scott Glenn
H.D. Dalton
Kate Capshaw
Jolie
Ben Johnson
Jesse Dalton
Tess Harper
Cheryl
Gary Busey
Clint Hornby
Balthazar Getty
Jud
Clarence Williams III
Deputy Sheriff Virgil
Mickey Rooney
Junion
Cynthia Mackey
Ambulance Attendant
Bill Clymer
Rodeo Announcer (voice)
Benjamin Rosenberg
Gas Station Attendant
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