A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.
Acting
Broderick's pathetic desperation — his best non-Ferris work.
Writing
Tolan's script weaponizes awkwardness like a blunt instrument.
Director
Peter Tolan
Matthew Broderick
Taylor Peters
Brittany Snow
Amanda
Maura Tierney
Lorraine Mendon
Peter Facinelli
Greg
Steve Coogan
Michael Henry
Ed Begley Jr.
Self
Bill Fagerbakke
Larry
Patrick Fischler
Kevin - TV Executive
Daniel Roebuck
Link
Lester Speight
BV
J.P. Manoux
Tony Clark
Katy Mixon
Girl #1 with Greg
Peggy J. Scott
Sharon the Maid
Jennifer Rau
Whisper
Allan Wasserman
Dr. Chase
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Tolan based this loosely on his own struggles with gambling and wrote it during a rehab stint.
This bombed so hard in 2008 that it went straight to cable, but it predicted the 'sad comedy' boom years before Fleabag.
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