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...

Slacker Josh, who has failed to make it as a musician in the big city, buys, as a suprise present for his father, a chair that reminds him of his own childhood and sets off on a cross-country drive, with his emotionally demanding girl-friend and brother in tow, to pick it up.
If you've heard the term 'mumblecore' in reference to a new genre of American independent cinema then this is a prime example. find out more...