It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

The story centres upon a troubled high school student named Luke Shapiro, a teenage pot dealer, who forms a friendship with Dr Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York City and their own depression; two disillusioned and confused individuals drifting towards some kind of peace. Set during 1994 and with a cracking hip hop score, 'The Wackness' is a whimsically offbeat comedy dra find out more...