Three loveable ex-Hollywood actors -- Tom (Tom Berenger), Kage (Burt Reynolds), and Floyd (Rod Steiger) -- decide to use their fading talents to con a mobster (Al Sapienza) out of seven million dollars when they find his latest victim dead under the Hollywood sign. Disguised as detectives, the trio confronts the violent mobsters in their zillion-dollar Los Angeles mansion, but the game goes from whimsical to dangerous when the gangsters discover what's happening.