Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Alec Baldwin | ... | Frank Teagarten | |
Salma Hayek | ... | Nancy Teagarten | |
Jim Gaffigan | ... | Carl Mancini | |
Joe Manganiello | ... | Bob Donnelly | |
Treat Williams | ... | Dan Henderson | |
Michelle Veintimilla | ... | Rachel Teagarten | |
Natalia Cigliuti | ... | Betty Donnelly | |
Colin Quinn | ... | Ryan the Bum #2 | |
Eddie Schweighardt | ... | Tristan Donnelly | |
Jeremy Shinder | ... | Trey Donnelly | |
Ben Platt | ... | Jason Johnson | |
Olivia Luccardi | ... | Jessie | |
JoJo Kushner | ... | Rose Shope | |
Sasha Mitchell | ... | Shope | |
Aasif Mandvi | ... | Nigel |
Frank and Nancy are a married couple living in a British-style big house. They proudly send their only daughter to college. But it turns out that the wealth of the family is not unlimited - To pay for the education of their daughter and hide financial collapse from her close ones, Frank and Nancy secretly arrange a garage sale at night, pouring it all in with alcohol. Written by Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)
As a screenwriter myself I know how difficult it is to get anything produced let alone a movie. It is all the more mystifying then that something as awful as this ever saw the light of day. What is even more of a mystery is how two actors of Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek's stature were persuaded to sign up for it in the first place. I can only guess at their motives but I suspect they were doing it as a favour to the director or one of the producers. If not, both should sack their agents immediately.
The leads do their best to navigate their way through what is a painfully unfunny script but, ultimately, this will probably go down as the low point of their careers. It's a real shame as Baldwin in particular has turned in some great performances over the years - his cameo in Glengarry Glen Ross being one of my personal favourites. He and Hayek will no doubt bounce back from this but the director and co-writer, Fred Wolf - a former stand-up, unbelievably - may struggle to put this stinker behind him.