



It's Thanksgiving weekend in New York, and Lt. Colonel Frank Slade (Al Pacino) is in town for a slice of the good life: fine cuisine, beautiful women, chauffeured limousines and a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. And a young Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell) is reluctantly along for the ride, getting the education of a lifetime. Slade is one of life's originals: A former aide to Lyndon Johnson, now blind, irascible yet with a touch of the poet. Charlie is an earnest young prep student facing a difficult crossroad in life. Their raucous, revealing and tragically funny adventure in New York will leave both of them changed forever.