Melvin Smiley      Mark Wahlberg           Oliver Mink
Cisco              Lou Diamond Phillips    Frank Schaff
Pam Shulman        Christina Applegate     Nana Spier
Paris              Avery Brooks            Wolfgang Kühne
Crunch             Bokeem Woodbine         Detlef Bierstedt
Vince              Antonio Sabato Jr.      Torsten Michaelis 
Keiko Nishi        China Chow              Ursula Hugo
Jeanne Shulman     Lainie Kazan            Joseline Gassen
Morton Shulman     Elliott Gould           Christian Rode
Jiro Nishi         Sab Shimono             Joseline Gassen
Gump               Robin Dunne             Gerrit Schmidt-Foß
Chantel            Lela Rochon             Anke Reitzenstein 
Video Store Kid    Danny Smith             Santiago Ziesmer
Lance              Joshua Peace
Sergio             David Usher

Elliot Gould:Christian Rode

Lainie Kazan = Joseline Gassen

Sergio -> Klaus-Peter Grap
Lance -> Matthias Klages