Late for Dinner

Late for Dinner is a 1991 American film directed by W. D. Richter and starring Peter Berg, Brian Wimmer and Marcia Gay Harden. The supporting cast features Peter Gallagher and Richard Steinmetz, along with Janeane Garofalos first movie appearance, briefly playing a cashier during a comical sequence in a burger joint.

In 1962, best friends and brothersinlaw, Willie Husband Brian Wimmer and simpleminded Frank Lovegren Peter Berg, are running from the police because Willie shot and killed a man. It was selfdefense, but a witness intends to frame them both for kidnapping and murder.Frank explains what happened Willie his wife, Joy Marcia Gay Harden and little daughter, Jess Cassy Friel live a happy life in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Joys brother, Frank, lives with them. Willie lost his job at the milk company, and they have fallen behind in house payments. They learn the bank intends to foreclose, so Willie pays a visit to the banker, Bob Freeman Peter Gallagher, to show that he made up the back payments with funds borrowed from relatives. Freeman takes Willies receipt and burns it, then offers to buy his house for less than its worth. He is building a huge, new home development in the area, and he needs all the land in Willies neighborhood to do it. Willie refuses to undersell or to bow to pressure, and destroys an expensive chair and rug before storming out of the office. Thats the last straw for Freeman, and he vows revenge. ........

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