Francis Phelan (Jack Nicholson) left his family to become a hobo after accidentally dropping his son and killing him. After 22 years, he finally returns to Albany, New York, but doesn't know if he can face his particular demons.
This is kind of a Halloween movie, in that it's set on Halloween and features ghosts. But it's much more of a Great Depression, grappling with guilt, and the Choices We Make kind of film. It's a good movie if you are interested in any of those things but it does feel like you've been dragged for miles behind a slow-moving car.
Meryl Streep and Tom Waits support, and this is the feature debut (they'd done TV work previously) of Nathan Lane and Frank Whaley, playing a ghost and young Francis, respectively. There are some other faces you'd probably recognize, depending on how my movies from the 80s and 90s you've seen. Not in a hurry to revisit this one, but it's currently streaming on Kanopy, if you want to give it a shot.
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