Better Living (2000)

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Love the Hard Way

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Rating: NONE

Release Date: Aug 4, 2000

Running Time: 95 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Olympia Dukakis, Roy Scheider, Edward Herrmann, Deborah Hedwall, Catherine Corpeny, Wendy Hoopes, James Villemaire, Phyllis Somerville

director: Max Mayer

The story of a family living in New York suburbs struggling to stay together in the absence of the father, Tom, who disappeared fifteen years earlier without a trace. The lives of Nora, Tom's wife, and their three very unique headstrong daughters are suddenly interrupted with Tom's reappearance, especially since he has come back with some rather peculiar plans.

A long-lost father's homecoming quickly unglues his family -- and this ill-conceived comedy-drama.

Story

Nora (Olympia Dukakis) is bonkers enough to jackhammer tunnels beneath her suburban home while her three adults daughters (Deborah Hedwall, Catherine Corpeny and Wendy Hoopes) are only marginally more stable. Then patriarch Tom (Roy Scheider) shows up after a 15-year absence with wild ideas about fortifying the homestead against attacks from the world's unfortunate. Who will triumph in the…