86 minutes
10/30/1985
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
Geraldine Page
as Mama
Philip Bosco
as James Flanagan
Brian Bloom
as Danny
Steven Weber
as Sean
Olympia Dukakis
as Mary
Linda Thorson
as Andrea
James Tolkan
as Turner
Louis Zorich
as Lerner
Pierre Epstein
as Morry
Bill Hickey
as Papa
Theron Montgomery
as Pickles
Ronald Yamamoto
as Sushi
Cory Notrica
as Gordon
Lynne Thigpen
as Woman Cop
Gwyllum Evans
as Church
E.R. Davies
as Dr. Coleman