In the future, a man struggles to keep control of his nightclub from mafia control in space.
Moon, Nightclub, Casino, Bodyguard, Posing As Married Couple
On the lunar colony Little America, retired smuggler Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) purchases a singing-club to prevent the murder of its owner Anthony Frankowski (Jay Mohr) by his creditors Gino (Burt Young) and Larry (Lillo Brancato) for his terrible polka singing and club's unpopularity.
Seven years later, "Club Pluto" is operated by Nash, his Hispanic assistant, and Bruno (Randy Quaid), old android model 63 plus. Frankowski, under the alias "Tony Francis", has become an interplanetary musical star despite his inability to sing. Nash is approached in the club by Dina Lake (Rosario Dawson), a young woman stranded on the Moon, who offers to sing in his club in exchange for her passage to Earth, because she can't afford the ticket, but receives instead a position of server. Meanwhile, Nash is visited by messengers of the mysterious entrepreneur Rex Crater, who offers to buy Club Pluto. When Nash refuses, Crater's minions destroy the whole club, but Nash, Dina and Bruno evade them, with Bruno shooting them. In escape, Nash reunites and learns from Rowland (Peter Boyle) a retired policeman, that Rex Crater never leaves his penthouse in Moon Beach; but had worked with the late Dr. Runa Pendankin, a geneticist who specialized in cloning. Later on, Rowland is shot dead by one of Carter's assailants.
Nash and Dina visit Dr. Pendankin's apprentice, Mona Zimmer (Illeana Douglas), who operates a cosmetic surgery station. Zimmer, intimidated by Nash, states that Dr. Pendankin was working with a Terrestrial criminal initialed "WZW" on his suitcase. Nash and Dina return to their hotel, where they are attacked by Crater's assassins and whence Nash steals a car with a modifited computer named James (John Cleese), and takes Dina and Bruno to his old smuggler's hideout outside of the colony. There, Nash searches the internet for any Terrestrial criminal having the initials "WZW". When he finds nothing, Dina suggests that the initials were an inverted "MZM"; and by this criterion, Nash discovers "Michael Zoroaster Marucci" (Alec Baldwin), whom he suspects of being Rex Crater.
Shortly afterward the hideout is attacked by Crater's agents, whom they escape by jumping their car across a canyon. Their car is damaged and explodes, causing them to be presumed dead. Nash and Dina start walking to find the nearest colony, but they ran out of air and faint. Bruno carries them, but his battery runs out. They are eventually rescued by Felix Laranga (Luis Guzmán) a smuggler who idolizes Pluto Nash as his role-model. Felix takes them to Moon Beach.
In the Moon Beach, Nash asks Tony Francis for a means of entering Crater's penthouse; but they, and later Bruno and Dina, are captured by Crater's agents. In the penthouse, Nash accuses Rex Crater of being Michael Marucci, whereupon Rex reveals himself to be a clone of Nash himself, created by Dr. Pendankin to appear as public face of Michael Marucci's illegal activities, but later the murderer of both. Crater and Nash later fight for possession of a gun; and when Nash, as a ruse, fires on Bruno, Crater's men fire on their employer by mistake. Nash then orders Crater's men to leave and reveals his identity to Dina; and Bruno, upon hearing this, reveals himself unharmed by reason of a bulletproof shirt hidden under his clothes. Crater, also wearing a bulletproof shirt, attempts to garotte Nash, but dies by being thrown through a window onto a card table below where Felix is gambling. The story then ends with the heroes celebrating in the rebuilt Club Pluto, with Nash as the owner, Dina as the lead singer, and Bruno as the new manager of the club. Nash looks at Dina, singing, lights a cigar, and smiles.
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