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Nora (Olympia Dukakis) and her three grown daughters, living in the suburbs of New York City, are stunned when Tom (Roy Scheider), Nora's husband and the father of the girls, comes back after 15 years and reunites their family. However, he has changed. Now, he insists that the family build a shelter underneath their house in .. Read more

Starring	Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider, Edward Herrmann, Catherine Corpeny
Director	Max Mayer
Genres	Comedy

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  Nora (Olympia Dukakis) and her three grown daughters, living in the suburbs of New York City, are stunned when Tom (Roy Scheider), Nora's husband and the father of the girls, comes back after 15 years and reunites their family. However, he has changed. Now, he insists that the family build a ...