On his girlfriend's insistence, a disgruntled man tries to make peace with his high-spirited, street-smart and often irritatingly careless father, a failed actor who never quit his dream to be a success.
Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.
A Midwest college student eager to pay for his tuition at a prestigious acting program in New York City. Abruptly, he ends up back home and turns a bet one Halloween into a lucrative career to pay for his tuition.