tom selleck play an absentee son to senile pop don ameche and weary mom anne jackson and make up for his indiscretion ( one presumes ) and take them in after ameche have burn down his mobile home while meanwhile and selleck job be vanquish by the f. b. i. and his asset be frozen and his wife and kid leave him and his obnoxious sister and her brat have come to stay . brightly painted comedy of ill be a out of touch with reality a ameche dodder old coot . perhaps a serious first draft ( with scene such a ameche walk out into traffic with two toddler ) be incorporate into a silly second or third version ( with selleck get poke and bump and prod and and eventually lose a toe and a testicle . ) . either way and it a painful experience and and selleck sudden dedication to his father make little sense while he hobble around and howl in pain and but retain his heart of mush . this movie be mush . from .