Dad

In DAD, John Tremont (Ted Danson) is a perpetually busy and career-centered executive in New York City. In the middle of a meeting, he gets word that his mother, Bette (Olympia Dukakis), suffered a heart attack and is in the hospital. He immediately flies out to his parents' home in Los Angeles, where he quickly comes to realize that his father, Jake (Jack Lemmon), who also isn't in the best of health, seems to have a hard time taking care of himself, especially without Jake's domineering mother around to keep everything in working order. John decides to stay with his father while his mother recuperates, but during this time, his father is diagnosed with cancer and falls into a bout of catatonic dementia and senility in which he believes he is a farmer in rural New Jersey. Meanwhile, John's college-aged son Billy (Ethan Hawke), who has forgone college to live a communal existence in Mexico, has returned to see his grandfather. Now John must also make amends with Billy, who he has rarely seen in recent years due to both the divorce from Billy's mother and John's self-centered focus on his career. After seeming to come out of the senility and dementia, Jake leaves the hospital a new man, determined to make the most of each day -- spry, creative, energetic, curious about the world and everything in it. He knows he doesn't have much longer to live, and even in the midst of still having the delusions of being a farmer in New Jersey, tells John, "Dying's not a sin, not living is." John begins to be inspired by his father's example, and now seeks to make amends with the son, siblings, and parents he had spent so little time with in recent years, and to make up for lost time.