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Andy Garcia (one of the film’s producers) stars as Vince Rizzo, a prison guard – he prefers the term “correctional officer” – who nurtures secret dreams of being an actor. He locks himself in the family bathroom with a Brando biography instead of a copy of Playboy, and sneaks off at night to acting classes, telling his wife, Joyce, (Julianna Margulies) that he’s headed to a poker game. At his classes, he finds a soul mate (Emily Mortimer), a pretty student with secrets of her own.
The Rizzos’ daughter (Dominik Garcia-Lorido) is a college student whose parents don’t know she earns money as a stripper. The teenage son (Ezra Miller) is a wiseacre with a fetish for fat women. New to the household is a paroled stickup artist (Steven Strait) who moves in to help Vince build a backhouse. Only Vince knows that this frequently shirtless hunk is his son from a pre-Joyce relationship.