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Disheartened attorney Mike Flaherty (Giamatti), who moonlights as a high school wrestling coach, stumbles across a star athlete through some questionable business dealings while trying to support his family. Just as it looks like he will get a double payday, the boys mother shows up fresh from rehab and flat broke, threatening to derail everything.
New Providence, New Jersey lawyer Mike Flaherty, who has his own small firm, suffers from anxiety due to financial problems. Those problems stem from insufficient work for the firm, increasing overhead with the building in which he operates literally falling apart before his eyes, and increasing costs at home in taking care of his family. Being a lawyer, he refuses to supplement his income by doing work he thinks beneath him, although he does a side job with his law firm assistant and friend Stephen Vigman coaching the less than adept wrestling team at his alma mater, New Providence High School. He is shielding everyone around him from these financial problems, including that family consisting of his "bark worse than bite" wife Jackie, and their two preschool aged daughters, Abby and Stella, although his long time best friend, Terry Delfino, who is facing his own issues in hatred fixation of his ex-wife and her new partner living in "his" house, does find out Mikes problems out of circumstance. To solve his financial problems, Mike seizes upon a less than ethical opportunity concerning a court appointed client, Leo Poplar. Wealthy Leo is at the early stages of dementia, but would rather live "at home" as opposed to the probable court order to send him to a care facility. The whereabouts of Leos only known family, his daughter Cindy, with who he has been estranged for twenty years, is unknown, she the only real candidate to act as Leos guardian if he were to continue to live in his house. When he learns that Leos guardianship includes a $1,500 per month stipend, Mike convinces the court to allow him to assume guardianship of Leo. Mike, in turn, places Leo in that care facility while he collects that $1,500 per month basically doing nothing on Leos behalf, he telling those that ask only one half of the story, either that he is taking care of Leo, or that the court ordered Leo to move into the care facility. Complications ensue in the case when Leos teenaged grandson, Kyle Timmons, who Leo didnt even know existed, unexpectedly lands on his doorstep wanting to live with him. Based on Leos situation but knowing nothing about about Kyle beyond the guilt by association of what Leo had mentioned about deadbeat Cindy, Mike, with Jackies reluctant approval, decides they have no other option but to take Kyle in until they locate Cindy to take him back. Although one issue that Mike learns about Kyles past buoys that notion of keeping him around longer than anticipated, Mike knows Cindys eventual arrival and what he eventually learns about her relationship with Kyle can only make what hes doing with Leo more tenuous.
Paul Giamatti
Mike Flaherty
Amy Ryan
Jackie Flaherty
Jeffrey Tambor
Stephen Vigman
Bobby Cannavale
Terry Delfino
Burt Young
Leo Poplar
Melanie Lynskey
Cindy
Alex Shaffer
Kyle
Margo Martindale
Eleanor
David W. Thompson
Stemler
Mike Diliello
Jimmy Reed
Nina Arianda
Shelly
Marcia Haufrecht
Gina Flaherty
Sharon Wilkins
Judge Lee
Clare Foley
Abby
Penelope Kindred
Stella
Sophie Kindred
Stella
Tim Ransom
Stuart Thatcher
Nicholas Somers
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