In 1970 twenty-year-old Jerry (Michael Douglas) returns to his parents Herb (Jack Warden) and Ruth (Barbara Bel Geddes) to let them know that he has dropped out of university to find himself.
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Inspired by a television advertisement, Jerry becomes a Big Brother to a black child named Marvis.
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Michael Douglas had been cast in the original play on Broadway but was fired from his role and replaced with David Birney.
At the University of Pennsylvania he taught classes in dramatic writing which resulted in Werner Liepolt's The Young Master Dante and Ron Cowen's Summertree.