Matt Damon as Rudy Baylor

Claire Danes as Kelly Riker

Danny DeVito as Deck Shifflet

Jon Voight as Leo F. Drummond

Mary Kay Place as Dot Black

Dean Stockwell as Judge Harvey Hale

Mickey Rourke as Bruiser Stone

Danny Glover as Richter Tyrone Kipler

Virginia Madsen as Jackie Lemancyzk

Randy Travis as Billy Porter

Roy Scheider as Wilfred Keeley

Red West as Buddy Black

Johnny Whitworth as Donny Ray Black

Andrew Shue as Cliff Riker

Teresa Wright as Colleen 'Miss Birdie' Birdsong

Wayne Emmons as Prince Thomas

Adrian Roberts as Butch

Michael Girardin as Everett Lufkin

Randall King as Jack Underhall

Justin Ashforth as F. Franklin Donaldson

Michael Keys Hall as B. Bobby Hall

James Cunningham as J. Michael Floquet

Frank Clem as Mr. Van Landel

Alan Woolf as Kermit Aldy

Sonny Shroyer as Delbert Birdsong

Pamela Tice Chapman as Vera Birdsong

John Yancey as Homicide Detective