Plot
The movie is about a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Timmy Gleason (Macaulay Culkin) is Ray Gleason's (Ted Danson) estranged son, who tries to blackmail his ex-con father into spending time with him. Ray and two cronies (Saul Rubinek and Gailard Sartain) pull off a rare coin heist, and then Timmy arrives wanting to share father-son time. He hides the coins and uses them to blackmail his father. The police are suspicious of Ray, and Detective Theresa Walsh (Glenne Headly) is over-zealous in her undercover observance of him and Timmy, as she begins to become infatuated with him.
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