Susan Sarandon

A love triangle surrounds members of a minor league baseball team and its unofficial "handler".

A young man considering suicide after he is fired for losing his company thousands of dollars is given a new lease on life when he falls in love with a flight attendant on the way to his Southern father's funeral which he is responsible for planning.

John Farley returns to his hometown and finds that his evil junior-high physical education teacher is dating his mother.

"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president...