At halftime, Chloe, Sam, Harold and Michael go outside to play touch football. The group, minus Nick, watches the game on TV, while Sarah tells Karen about her brief affair with Alex and how it affected their friendship negatively.ĭuring the game, Michael offers to father Meg's child, alluding to the fact that they had sex in college during the March on Washington. Harold's surprise arrives: sneakers for everyone to wear during the upcoming Michigan football game. The next morning Nick, Sam and Harold go jogging, and the subject of Alex's suicide comes up again. While the others sit around and smoke marijuana, Meg asks Sam to father her baby, but he declines. Harold puts "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" by the Temptations on the stereo, and everyone dances while cleaning up the dishes. She tells him that he reminds her of Alex, to which Nick replies, "I ain't him."ĭuring dinner, Sarah starts tearing up over Alex as the group talks about him. Chloe takes Nick to the abandoned house that she and Alex were going to renovate. Out in the countryside, Harold listens to Michael's plans to buy a nightclub. Meg reveals to Sarah that she wants to have a child, and that she is going to ask Sam to be the father, knowing now that Nick can't. Nick, Harold, Michael and Chloe go for a drive (while "Good Lovin'" by the Rascals plays on the car radio), while Sam and Karen go shopping. Richard returns home to look after his kids, but Karen decides to stay in South Carolina for the weekend.
Nick comforts Harold by saying, "She didn't marry Alex." Harold confides in Nick that Sarah and Alex had an affair five years earlier. Harold tells Nick that his running shoe company is about to be bought out by a large corporation, and that he's about to become rich. The next morning Harold and Nick go jogging. At the end of the discussion, Richard states, "Nobody said it was going to be fun. The two then go into the kitchen and find Richard making a sandwich, and the three make small talk which turns into a discussion about responsibility and adulthood. Sam later finds Nick watching television, and they briefly talk about Karen. During the first night there, a bat flies into the attic while Meg and Nick are getting reacquainted. Also present is Chloe ( Meg Tilly), Alex's much younger girlfriend.Īfter the burial, everyone goes from the cemetery to Harold and Sarah's vacation house, where they are invited to stay for the weekend. They include Sam (Tom Berenger), a famous television actor now living in Los Angeles Meg (Mary Kay Place), a chain smoking former public defender who is now a real estate attorney in Atlanta and wants a child Michael (Jeff Goldblum), a sex-obsessed People magazine journalist Nick (William Hurt), a Vietnam War veteran and former radio host who suffers from impotence Karen ( JoBeth Williams), a housewife from suburban Detroit who's unhappy in her marriage to her advertising executive husband, Richard ( Don Galloway). Harold Cooper (Kevin Kline) is bathing his young son when his wife, Sarah (Glenn Close), receives a phone call at their Richmond home telling her that their friend, Alex, has committed suicide by slashing his wrists in the bathtub of their vacation house in South Carolina, where he had been staying.Īt the funeral, Harold and Sarah are reunited with college friends from the University of Michigan.
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