Joseph Harris, a famous but troubled playwright, comes to a small Michigan town at Christmas to put on his latest play. The cynical New Yorker is met by a young, aspiring writer who challenges his literary hero to be the famous person he'd hoped for. Harris wants nothing to do with Michigan or its small-town theater, and he has no interest in being the young man's hero. As soon as he gets there, Harris makes plans to go back to New York on the next train that leaves. Desperate and trying hard to keep him in town, the young man must face his hero and explore the complicated relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
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Joseph Harris, a famous but troubled playwright, comes to a small Michigan town at Christmas to put on his latest play. The cynical New Yorker is met by a young, aspiring writer who challenges his literary hero to be the famous person he'd hoped for. Harris wants nothing to do with Michigan or its small-town theater, and he has no interest in being the young man's hero. As soon as he gets there, Harris makes plans to go back to New York on the next train that leaves. Desperate and trying hard to keep him in town, the young man must face his hero and explore the complicated relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
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