What's it about? The story involves three generations of a highly successful New York City family, each with his set of problems, and highlights the difficulties of the father-son relationship. Mitchell Gromberg (Kirk Douglas) is trying to deal with health problems resulting from a stroke (Kirk Douglas suffered a stroke in 1996). His son, Alex (Michael Douglas), works as a lawyer in the firm that his father founded, but is questioning the usefulness of his work and his place in the family. Alex's son, Asher (Cameron Douglas) does not take college seriously and seems lost. The youngest son Eli (Rory Culkin), while extremely intelligent, is entering a difficult pre-adolescent time, while being socially awkward. Diana Dill, Michael Douglas' real-life mother, plays the wife of Kirk Douglas. When Alex indulges in a thoughtless and careless brief romantic fling and his psychologist wife (Bernadette Peters) discovers it, his marriage is threatened. When Asher is discovered with illegal drugs, he starts to understand that he is on the wrong path. But major life crises, although devastating, bring the family together in a familial show of support, respect, and love.

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