There Goes The Neighborhood (film) - Main Cast

Main Cast

• Jeff Daniels as Willis Embry : Willis Embry is a none-too successful psychologist who works in a New Jersey prison. His girlfriend has just left him, but his life takes a turn for the better when an elderly dying prisoner named "Trick" reveals to Embry the secret location of $8.5million, money stolen from a Mafia skim bank, buried under the basement of a house at 7322 Pleasant Street, Cherry Hill.
• Catherine O'Hara as Jessie Lodge : Jessie Lodge is going through a very messy divorce with her estranged husband Albert. She lives at 7322 Pleasant Street, Cherry Hill and strikes an agreement with Willis Embry to find the money hidden under her basement.
• Hector Elizondo as Norman Rutledge : Norman Rutledge and his wife Peedi live at number 7320 Pleasant Street, Cherry Hill. Norman leads a boring life with an unspecified 7-to-7 job in the city, but also keeps a secret stash of weapons and contraband in a hidden secret room in his basement and is probably the biggest crook of them all. A hostage at first, along with his wife Peedi, he later takes over as leader from Marvin and concocts his own plan to recover the money from next-doors basement.
• Rhea Perlman as Lydia Nunn : Lydia Nunn and husband Jeffrey Babitt are successful authors, who when they are not trying to write their next book are the nosiest neighbours in the world and are never without a pair of binoculars, looking out their window at the comings and goings in the neighborhood.
• Judith Ivey as Peedi Rutledge : Peedi (or Penelope Diane) is the long-suffering wife of Norman Rutledge. Whatever magic there had been in their marriage many years ago has long since gone. She strikes up a friendship with Handsome Harry.
• Harris Yulin as Marvin Boyd : Marvin Boyd has served time in prison for armed robbery. He uses his talents for springing Lyle and Harry from jail, although he takes pills to control some kind of anger-management problem and is borderline psychotic.
• Jonathan Banks as Handsome Harry : Harry shares a cell with Lyle in prison. He is the most sympathetic criminal character and falls in love with Peedi Rutledge when they hold her and Norman hostage as they attempt to dig for the money.
• Dabney Coleman as Jeffrey Babitt : Jeffery and his wife Lydia are authors. Lydia has a daughter Swan from a previous marriage who Jeffrey does not particularly care for and plays the role of evil step-father.
• Chazz Palminteri as Lyle Corrente : Lyle shares a cell with Harry in prison. He also has anger management issues, but is nowhere near as psychotic as Marvin. Willis Embry blames his problems on trying to prove that he is harder than his brother. It is Lyle who overhears the conversation between Willis and Trick about the $8.5million, although he mishears the address and takes his fellow convicts to 7320 Pleasant Street (the home of the Rutledges), not number 7322.
• Richard Portnow as Marty Rollins : Marty Rollins is a real estate agent who is trying to sell Jessie's house. He hasn't sold a house in three years, and is receiving help as a sexaholic.
• Jeremy Piven as Albert Lodge : Albert Lodge is the estranged husband of Jessie Lodge. We first see him wielding a chainsaw at a piano and dividing it equally in two. The divorce is not going well.
• Heidi Zeigler as Swan Babitt : Swan is the daughter of Lydia Nunn. She has a job as a paperboy. She and her stepfather Jeffrey Babitt share an uneasy relationship.