Checking Out (2005)

Directors

Jeff Hare

Cast

Peter Falk, Laura San Giacomo, David Paymer, Judge Reinhold, Jeffrey D. Sams, Shera Danese, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dan Byrd

The story

Morris Applebaum, an eccentric, celebrated stage actor of Jewish origin summons by letters his three adult children to his Manhattan apartment for the celebration of his 90th birthday and a special event they'll never forget; when the party's over, Morris plans to take his "final exit". He is healthy and not unduly depressed although he's missing his wife, but he just wants to go out the way he's lived, on his own terms and as a performance. Now it's up to his hilarious offspring – Flo, Ted, Barry and his daughter-in-law and her teen son and daughter – to put aside their own excessive baggage from childhood and convince Morris that he…

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