Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father. Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can’t hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time. The two are shaped by this – Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself – as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, “One Big Happy Family.” Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, “I thought she was dead,” Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of near-misses and almost encounters. Gwen is hired to ghost-write Francesca’s autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca’s property. When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca’s building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick’s attention – and wins his heart.
Release Date: 30 May 1997Runtime: 113 min
Stars:
- Alexandra Theriault
- Christine Ebersole
- Janel Moloney
- Jim Jansen
- Joette Hayward
- John Plumpis
- Kale Browne
- Karen Allen
- Kellen Fink
- Kenneth Flores
- Kimberly Paige
- Mary Martin
- Michael Tucker
- Sean Bolvin
- Yvonne Zima
Director: Scott Winant
