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An Actor Prepares
After suffering a heart attack, a world-famous and hard-drinking actor is forced to drive across country with his estranged son—who testified against him in his parents' divorce—on one last madcap adventure.
Steve Clark
Thomas Moffett
Casts & Crew
Jeremy Irons
Jack Huston
Mamie Gummer
Megalyn Echikunwoke
Ben Schwartz
Will Patton
Poorna Jagannathan
Frankie Faison
Catherine Dyer
Colby Minifie
Owen Harn
Larry Pine
Whitney Goin
Julia Valentine Larson
Inder Kumar
Danielle Lyn
Alexandra Ficken
Monica Edelhoff
Lucie Carroll
Timothy Nichols
Liz McGeever
Cory Scott Allen
Jeff Campanella
Kai N. Ture
Also Directed by Steve Clark
When playboy and one-hit-wonder novelist Jack Frost (Jason Behr) learns that his childhood sweetheart is getting married, he tries to drown his sorrows by dramatically escalating his self-destructive drinking and womanizing. Frost's pals try to coax him back from the brink, but only a precocious youngster (India Ennenga) in his apartment building finds a way around his defenses. Monet Mazur co-stars in this drama from director Steve Clark.
In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a sixty-five-year-old Chilean woman named Aida. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage - diving into the exciting, fast-paced world of first experiences - quickly becomes skewed by an incomprehensible depression, and a house of interior horrors. Surrounded by women - his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mother (more interested in the role of confidante than mother) his sister, a comedic, door-slamming tormentor, marked by her parent's divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional focal point on the verge of death in Lenox Hill Hospital - Oliver struggles to maintain his role as "man of the house" and his sanity.