Marlon Brando triumphs in his first starring role for ten years at Carmine Sabatini, a powerful New York importer. Matthew Broderick co-stars as Clark Kellog, a naïve film student who accepts a job working for Sabatini. As if trapped in a comic nightmare, Clark finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into an ingenious scam involving an endangered Komodo Dragon, Sabatini's daughter, Bert Parks and a group of very hungry eccentrics. But when the FBI asks Clark to snitch on his colorful employer, he discovers a strange loyalty to this fatherly figure...
