Motivational speaker Jack Corcoran has only five days to transport a 4-ton circus elephant named Vera across the country to the zoo in order to collect on his unknown father's estate. Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew McConaughey, Keith David, Pat Hingle, Pat Hingle, Lois Smith, Anita Gillette, Maureen Mueller, Harve Presnell, Tracey Walter, Linda Fiorentino, Tai.