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DIRECTOR
Scott Winant
WRITING CREDITS
Winnie Holzman
CAST
Jennifer Aniston Debbie
John Plumpis Saul, Age 25
Janel Moloney Beebee, Age 25
Yvonne Zima Gwen, Age 7
Christine Ebersole Beebee Moss
Kellen Fink Nick, Age 7
Karen Allen Betty Dawkan
Kale Browne Vince Dawkan
Michael Tucker Saul Moss
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 The two are shaped by this - Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself - as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, "One Big Happy Family."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.
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