Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jeff Daniels | ... | Paul Weaver | |
Cynthia Sikes | ... | Nancy Weaver | |
Judith Ivey | ... | Susan Volcheck | |
John Mahoney | ... | Boomer | |
Cloris Leachman | ... | Ruth Weaver | |
Amy Wright | ... | Karen Weaver | |
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Mary Griffin | ... | Sarah Weaver |
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Tom Allen | ... | David Weaver (as Thomas Allen) |
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Jo Livingston | ... | Harold Whipkey |
Annabelle Weenick | ... | Miriam Whipkey | |
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Matt Carlton | ... | Doug Whipkey (as Matthew Carlton) |
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Eve Smith | ... | Grandma Whipkey |
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Jack Willis | ... | Danny Volcheck |
Buddy Quaid | ... | Billy Volcheck | |
Peter Van Norden | ... | Frank |
Thirty-seven year old Paul Weaver, an ex-major leaguer turned insurance salesman, a job he hates, has just received final divorce papers a year after his wife Nancy Weaver left him because of his chronic infidelity. Paul can admit to himself that Nancy is the only woman he's ever loved but sometimes it was easier to turn to other woman as those one-nighters carried less baggage. Despite the probability of seeing Nancy, Paul decides to make the ten hour drive from his home in New York City to his small hometown in Pennsylvania for his sister Karen Weaver's wedding, he planning on staying with his parents in his old bedroom. What Paul is unaware of until he arrives is that Nancy and their their two children, teenage David Weaver and preteen Sarah Weaver, have temporarily moved in with his parents out of circumstance. While David understands the machinations of what happened with his parents, Sarah, who nonetheless misses New York life and always has plans on running away, blames her ... Written by Huggo
More of a drama, this movie is one of the saddest movie about love, it only show the worst part of it, in every scene the hero is strained and hurted, you can only cry about his fate until a little before the end, they describe it as "A Painfully Romantic Comedy" on the poster, but they really should change it to "A Painfully Dramatic Comedy " because the romance is simply not present, only rejection and questions about relationship, overall the movie is not badly played or written, but they lied about it, and I don't like being lied to..