Timothy Marx

When Theresa decides to stay in Newport, Ryan is glad, but he feels obligated to help her find a job and a place to live.

Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad (Jack Warden) has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each others' throats. As the eldest son, Johnny (Bob Hoskins) is tactlessly reminded that he's probably the next to go; daughter Terry (Pamela Reed) is the black sheep who hasn't told anyone that the marriage they all warned her against has broken up; thick-headed but nice looking younger son Frank (William Petersen) no longer has his father to cover for him; and Nora (Frances McDormand) comes home after going off to a cloistered convent and becoming a liberated nun who now runs an underground railroad for illegal aliens.

When their father dies unexpectedly, an eccentric family is drawn together. But old wounds and new revelations make the siblings' reunion a test of endurance.

When their father dies unexpectedly, an eccentric family is drawn together. But old wounds and new revelations make the siblings' reunion a test of endurance.