The Steps
Siblings - an uptight New Yorker and his party-loving sister - meet their dad's new wife and her unrefined kids at his lake house. The parents' plan to adopt and unite the family backfires. An uptight…
The Steps
Siblings - an uptight New Yorker and his party-loving sister - meet their dad's new wife and her unrefined kids at his lake house. The parents' plan to adopt and unite the family backfires. An uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister visit their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, and rough-around-the-edges kids. When the parents announce they're adopting a child to bring the family together, it has the opposite effect. —Quadrant Motion Pictures Jeff Stabler, a thirty-something New York investment broker, has always strove for success and by association wealth, much like his father Ed despite Ed having been an absent father in Jeff and his sister Marla's formative years. That's why it has been so difficult for Jeff that he has become persona non grata among his business friends and associates in he having been fired nine months ago for a financially costly mistake he made, he quickly running out of money. An offshoot of this mistake is that his girlfriend Zoe broke up with him and is now ghosting him. Because of this need to present himself as successful, Jeff has not told anyone in his family of these problems in his life. So while he generally would have nothing to do with Ed, Jeff, along with commitment-phobic party girl Marla, abide by Ed's request, Jeff in the hope to remain in Ed's good financial graces, to come to Parry Sound in Ontario cottage country, where he now lives, to meet his new wife, former waitress Sherry, and her three sons, David, Keith, and Sam, each a product of a different former relationship, as he and Sherry have a big announcement to make to the entire family. Jeff wants to ensure that Ed's vast wealth will "rightly" go eventually to him and Marla and not to Sherry and her sons, who he believes are gold-diggers even before having met them. Jeff's beliefs are strengthened when he does indeed meet free-spirited Sherry - the antithesis of his and Marla's mother - aggressively-minded David and his simple-minded wife Tammy, failed rock musician Keith, and biracial Stanford business school graduate Samir, each son somewhat a reflection of his respective biological father and a different phase of Sherry's life, none of those fathers ever having been in his respective son's life. Further complications in this situation ensue when they learn of Ed and Sherry's big announcement, which is meant to bind this collective together as family, with Ed and Sherry having ulterior motives related to the issue specifically for bringing them all together for the week. —Huggo
The Steps
Comedy
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Siblings - an uptight New Yorker and his party-loving sister - meet their dad's new wife and her unrefined kids at his lake house. The parents' plan to adopt and unite the family backfires. An uptight New Yorker and his party girl sister visit their Dad's lake house to meet his new wife, and rough-around-the-edges kids.
When the parents announce they're adopting a child to bring the family together, it has the opposite effect. —Quadrant Motion Pictures Jeff Stabler, a thirty-something New York investment broker, has always strove for success and by association wealth, much like his father Ed despite Ed having been an absent father in Jeff and his sister Marla's formative years. That's why it has been so difficult for Jeff that he has become persona non grata among his business friends and associates in he having been fired nine months ago for a financially costly mistake he made, he quickly running out of money.
An offshoot of this mistake is that his girlfriend Zoe broke up with him and is now ghosting him. Because of this need to present himself as successful, Jeff has not told anyone in his family of these problems in his life. So while he generally would have nothing to do with Ed, Jeff, along with commitment-phobic party girl Marla, abide by Ed's request, Jeff in the hope to remain in Ed's good financial graces, to come to Parry Sound in Ontario cottage country, where he now lives, to meet his new wife, former waitress Sherry, and her three sons, David, Keith, and Sam, each a product of a different former relationship, as he and Sherry have a big announcement to make to the entire family.
Jeff wants to ensure that Ed's vast wealth will "rightly" go eventually to him and Marla and not to Sherry and her sons, who he believes are gold-diggers even before having met them. Jeff's beliefs are strengthened when he does indeed meet free-spirited Sherry - the antithesis of his and Marla's mother - aggressively-minded David and his simple-minded wife Tammy, failed rock musician Keith, and biracial Stanford business school graduate Samir, each son somewhat a reflection of his respective biological father and a different phase of Sherry's life, none of those fathers ever having been in his respective son's life. Further complications in this situation ensue when they learn of Ed and Sherry's big announcement, which is meant to bind this collective together as family, with Ed and Sherry having ulterior motives related to the issue specifically for bringing them all together for the week.
—Huggo.