This smug, nostalgia wallow, set in the 1950s, deals with domestic dysfunction in a superficial manner better suited to a sitcom. Ex-GI Hubert Lee (Brian Benben), who has adopted and raised two Korean War orphans, just wants to settle down with his wife, Edna (Elizabeth McGovern), son Abraham Jacob (Christopher Larkin) and daughter, Louise Janine (Olivia Oguma). Lee spots some isolated waterside property, bordered by only one neighbor, which he purchases and fashions into a gigantic drive-in. Absorbed in his own dream for a better future, Hubert doesn't consider the effect his outdoor theater might have on the adjoining funeral parlor, owned by Turner Knight (William...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
98 mins