About time Robert de Niro stopped doing comedy roles and do what he does best - drama. In this movie, he plays a retired widower who decides to visit each of his four kids, when they couldn't make it for a weekend reunion.Against the doctor's advice (due to his health problems), he took the train to New York to his artist/painter son's apartment. As David is not around, he moves on to ad executive Amy and his grandson Jack. Things looks fine on the surface, but Frank senses an undercurrent of uneasiness. Amy seems very busy, so he leaves the next day to visit Robert, who's a percussionist and conductor wannabe. Robert also doesn't have much time for his Dad 'coz he's rehearsing with the orchestra, who's leaving town tomorrow. So Frank goes to L.A. to vist his younger daughter Rosie.
Thing are looking up this time. Rosie, who is a dancer at the casinos, fetches Frank in a limousine, and they go back to her expensive apartment. Instead of going out to that expensive dinner, the stayed in and took care of a neighbor's baby. The next day, Frank takes a flight home. Having missed his medication, Frank suffers a heart attack. He wakes up in a hospital with three kids around him. He knows all of them are keeping things from him, but given his present condition, he didn't take it too hard. Then he finds out that David died of a drug overdose in Mexico, and that's when he breaks down.
Movie ends with the whole family enjoying a Christmas feast at Frank's place.
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