Encountering a typical gallery of Rudolph eccentrics — jaded, booze - soaked lounge singer (Nathan Lane), inept lothario (Dermot Mulroney in the Keith Carradine role),
boorish real estate tycoon (Will Patton)-- she soon picks up threads of crime and coverup that lead all the way up to a lecherous, cant - spouting senator (Nick Nolte, pulling out all the comic stops as only he can).