From Brian - from the Celtic Irish meaning 'strong and cheese-like' and Flanagan meaning 'red' - you would think that our hero is something of a raving Irish Communist. In truth, he is a hopelessly self-obsessed monetarist arse.Bryan Brown as Doug Coughlin
Doug is the most complex of all the characters in the movie. He goes through several transformations during this epic tale of life's tragicomedy. This incarnation is happy with his lot and confident enough with the Tao to impart this knowledge to others. He is a good man - and yet so susceptible to evil.Unknown Man as The Chinese Elvis Angel
The most powerful of all the Elvi-Angels in Manhattan's Upper East Side. He carries people souls in a cardboard box and can import and export the Tao into your mental fabric.Ron Dean as Uncle Pat
Owner of Pat's Place and closet millionaire, he is also wise in the Tao, yet refuses to speak about it too much. Following the belief that, 'Those that will tell, don't know and that those that know, won't tell.' Although he does have a terrible habit of running his mouth off.Robert Donkey as Eddie The Wise Sage
Wiser and older than any other man in the whole of Manhattan. Eddie does not work for a living and spends all day getting tanked up in Pat's Place.Diana Heatherington & Airline Mazerolle as Frumpy & Bitchy the Waitresses
On first impression, these two clapped-out, trout-faced old hags look like any other old slappers trying to earn a few dollars by parading their haggard old bodies and limited wit around shitty franchised bars, populated with frustration Yuppie tossers - and your instincts would serve you well. They have been given crabs by Good Doug and seemed to enjoy it.Unknown Bloke as The Pink Squirrel Man
A Voodoo Wizard who speaks only in Mumbo Jumbo! He has appalling hair, a fake suntan and the dress sense of an extra in an 80's Tom Cruise vehicle, yet somehow is able to shag like a beast due to his Voodoo powers. A wise and powerful man indeed!Ellen Maguire as The Lady With The Serious Fuck Me Eyes
A good siren - as opposed to a bad siren. She's the sort of lady that sits around all day frigging herself. A chronic alcoholic and is always getting in trouble with her old man for shagging young men. He forces her to wear that green mohair jumper and dingly-dangly earrings as a deterrent.Joseph Zaccone as Her Old Man
Boring and largely pissed off geezer, who blow dries his hair, and all that caper. Works too hard and can't get an erection. Votes Republican and is probably gay.Larry Block as The Come And Work For My Wallet Man
Fat, happy, generous and benevolent dude - much in the mold of Willy Wonka. Owns Cell Block - the evil lair of the evil Yuppie Poet and his band of sexually deviant hecklers. Nice Chap though. Means well. Coaches Little League.Paul Benedict as That Bloke From Spinal Tap
In Spinal Tap, as Tucker 'Smitty' Brown (right), responds to being called a 'twisted old fruit' by claiming that he is 'just as god made him.' In this film (er, left) he helps Brian lose faith in education.Unknown Bloke as Ronni Lamaster
Brian's mate from college and future king of pet make-up. Plays Sunday league and dabbles in motor mechanics.Gina Gershon as Coral
At one point Cousin S and I began to think that Coral was some kind of underhanded agent sent to cause barriers to peoples' spiritual development. Around that time I began fearing that she was also an evil agent in other movies such as Face/Off, Showgirls, Voodoo Dawn, One Tough Cop and that lesbian flick made by those two who made The Matrix. She has no genitalia, yet achieves orgasm by rolling around laughing with any given partner.Kelly Connell as The Yuppie Poet
A sexual deviant extraordinaire who gets paid to talk bollocks at high volume.
