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Chase Phillips (Dame Helen Mirren), a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard, married Richard (Beau Bridges), and like the area, grew into the upper middle class. Her distaste for artificiality leads her to a wild breakdown, and Richard dutifully tries to restore their family unit as best he knows how by hiring a "Mother's Helper", Elizabeth (Kyra Sedgwick). Chase is broken, and wickedly caustic towards Elizabeth, until they discover each other's similarities. A strong relationship develops, affecting their personal and familial salvation, and destruction.

The Story of Table Hockey is a film that documents the origins and storied history of the iconic board game, and the fans of the sport that have kept it alive and well until today. The narrator will take the viewer through 80 plus years of table hockey, using current interviews and archival footage of the world's fastest and most realistic board sport. No other board game captures the essence of the sport it mimics like table hockey does for ice hockey. First invented during the Great Depression as a cheap source of entertainment for his children in Burlington, Ontario, Donald Munro's simple game would soon become a staple of the Eaton's Christmas catalogue for over 20 years. A Swedish firm developed a slotted game, which freed up the players to move up and down the ice like real players - unlike the fixed pegs on the Munro game. Out of Montreal came Eagle Toys (bought later by Coleco), whose bold president Ben Stein secured NHL licensing for their games, bringing a whole new dimension to the game: collectability.

After two and a half years abroad, Taylor MacLennan decides to accept an invitation from his mother and return home to the small northeastern resort town where he grew up. The reunion with his over-achieving brother, Robert, and his wife Christine, who was also Taylor's high school girlfriend and first love, rekindles resentments that Taylor still carries. Fearing that Taylor might leave again, his mother reveals the real reason for her invitation, her hope that he might make amends with his domineering father whose failing health concerns the whole family. Bolstered by his girlfriend, Pamela and the friendship of an old flame he once betrayed, Taylor finds the courage to face his father and learns that his sickness has progressed much further than the rest of the family knows. Trapped between the responsibilities he can not deny and memories he can not reconcile, Taylor comes to realize that he has defined himself by a history the rest of the family has outgrown and begins to reconsider the direction his life has taken.

Two brother's reunite to spread their father's ashes.