 Nearing his 60th birthday, a movie producer (Frank Langella) discovers that he may have less than a year to live as a result of inoperable cancer. The effects of his disease take the toll on him and his distressed wife (Salome Jens). However, his dysfunctional family are not told and their soap opera-ish life goes on. His son, a has-been actor (Andrew McCarthy), has to deal with a precocious daughter (Aria Noell Curzon) and a drug-addled ex-wife (Gina Gershon) and sells AIDS patients insurance policies until he becomes attracted to one (Elizabeth Perkins) His step-sister learns that her real father murdered her mother & then committed suicide. Obviously little positive events occur with the dour circumstances outlined.