The cast reunites Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, co-stars of The In-Laws, and also features Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning and Valerie Curtin.

He has teenage triplets who are all gifted musicians but wife Arlene insists that the kids attend college at Yale, requiring more than $40,000 in tuition, which would be a good deal more than the nearby UCLA.

This situation is on Leonard's mind when he pays a business call to the Beverly Hills mansion of Steve and Blanche Rickey.

He is met by a flirtatious and scantily clad Blanche, who explains a problem of her own: Steve is dying, with less than a week to live, but has inadvertently allowed his life insurance policy to lapse.

A scheme is hatched involving a policy with a double-indemnity clause, but for this to work, Steve will need to die in an unexpected fashion; will he or won't he co-operate?