You Can Thank Me Later

The grown Cooperberg siblings reluctantly assemble at the hospital to await the results of their father's surgery: Edward (Mark Blum), a theater producer and renowned womanizer, Eli (Ted Levine), the self-proclaimed poet who works in the family business and Susan (Amanda Plummer), the artist who still lives off her parents while justifying it as a 'grant'. Holding them all together while pushing them simultaneously apart is their mother, Shirley (Ellen Burstyn), who can't help but criticize her children's chosen paths in life, reducing them to a state of infancy.