The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
Kenneth Branagh
as Peter McGowan
Robin Wright
as Melanie McGowan
Suzi Hofrichter
as Amy Walsh
Lynn Redgrave
as Edna
Jared Harris
as False Peter
Peter Riegert
as Larry
David Krumholtz
as Brian Sellars
Johnathon Schaech
as Adam
Kaitlin Hopkins
as Victoria
Suzy Joachim
as Allana
Brett Rickaby
as Janitor
Lucinda Jenney
as Trina Walsh
