Very few surprises, in this feel-good fluff that, despite offering nothing novel, could do well with older audiences who rightly feel that too few films are being made with them in mind. Arvilla (Jessica Lange) and husband Joe were globe-trotting free spirits, now Joe has died -- in a photo-album montage that looks like the intro to a TV dramedy series about a newly widowed woman starting her new life. Francine will let Arvilla keep the house she and Joe shared for 20 years (he meant for her to have it, but appears not to have gotten around to updating his will) only if she will ignore her promise to scatter Joe's ashes, instead letting "Daddy" be interred alongside his first wife.

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