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Staying Together is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lee Grant released in USA on 10 november 1989 with Sean Astin
Staying Together (1989)
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Add to a movie listStaying Together is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Lee Grant and produced by Joseph Feury (Grant's husband) and Milton Justice. The film stars Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Levon Helm (of The Band), Dermot Mulroney, Tim Quill, and Daphne Zuniga. Grant's daughter, Dinah Manoff appears briefly making this the only film project (excluding TV Movies) to involve Grant, Feury and Manoff.
Channing and Manoff previously appeared together in Grease, released 11 years earlier.
Synopsis
Three brothers live at home with their parents and work at the family restaurant that has been managed by their father for the past 25 years. The brothers expect one day to take over the restaurant themselves, but one morning their father comes to the realization that he hates working there and he sells the restaurant without consulting the rest of the family. This begins to break apart the family, and one of the brothers, angry with the father's decision, leaves to find another job. The father subsequently dies from a heart attack.Actors
Sean Astin
(Duncan McDermott)
Stockard Channing
(Nancy Trainer)
Melinda Dillon
(Eileen McDermott)
Levon Helm
(Denny Stockton)
Dinah Manoff
(Lois Cook)
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