A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson’s suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man’s mother complicate matters.

A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.