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Summary: Jayne and Laura are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy-something-year-old father Joe. Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne hopes that their father's condition isn't that serious. Joe is still singing and playing his old guitar, and the lively widower even has a new "ladyfriend," shameless and sassy Shelly. But as the visible moments of their father's impending senility increase, so do the dysfunctional family dynamics. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives - Laura's busy schedule as an environmentalist and mother of two small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson. Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! Any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones.
Runtime: 95 min
Rating: Rated R for language, drug use, and some sexual content including brief nudity.
Production: Pierpoline Films
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Home Release Date: Jun 15, 2010
Director Credit
Mitchell Lichtenstein Director
Writer Credit
Mitchell Lichtenstein Written By
Principal Cast Credit
Demi Moore Laura
Ellen Barkin Shelly
Parker Posey Jayne
Rip Torn Joe
Cast Credit
Billy Magnussen Ray
Celia Weston Neighbor
Christian Camargo Jackson
Jacquelyn Conforti Young Jayne
Richard Barlow Mitch Dawkins
Roger Rees Antiques Dealer
Sebastian Roché Laurent
Susan Blommaert Mallory
T. Ryder Smith Shoe Boutique Buzzard Salesman
Tom McNutt Skipp Gunderson
Victor Slezak Eli Bell
Producer Credit
Andrew W. Schwertfeger Assistant Producer
Jonathan Gray Executive Producer
Joyce M. Pierpoline Producer
Richard Lormand Associate Producer
Timothy J. DeBaets Executive Producer
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