What happens when kids grow up and parents don't.
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
Trini Alvarado Jeremy Levy Kathryn Walker John Lithgow Terry Kiser David Selby Roberta Maxwell Paul Dooley Irene Worth Diane Stilwell Dianne Kirksey Olympia Dukakis Jill Eikenberry Kathryn Grody Beatrice Winde Jack Hausman Stacy Peppell Lacey Neuhaus Patti Hansen Michael J. Miller Bruno DiGiorgi Michael Vaccaro
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