• 
  Lasse Hallström

  regizor

• 
  Callie Khouri

  scenarist

• 
  Julia Roberts

  Grace King Bichon
• 
  Dennis Quaid

  Edward Bichon
• 
  Kyra Sedgwick

  Emma Rae King
• 
  Robert Duvall

  Wyly King
• 
  Beau Holden

  Frank
• 
  J. Don Ferguson

  Crainic

• 
  Rhoda Griffis

  Edna
• 
  Lisa Roberts Gillan

  Kitty
• 
  Muse Watson

  Hank Corrigan
• 
  Rusty Hendrickson

  Harry
• 
  David Huddleston

  Jack 'Mad Dog' Pierce
• 
  Gena Rowlands

  Georgia King
• 
  Haley Aull

  Caroline 'Doodlebug' Bichon

• 
  Brett Cullen

  Jamie Johnson
• 
  Terrence Currier

  Dr. Frank Lewis (as Terrence P. Currier)
• 
  Deborah Hobart

  Lorene Tuttle
• 
  Rebecca Koon

  Barbaranelle
• 
  Ginnie Randall

  Eula
• 
  Anne Shropshire

  Aunt Rae