It stars Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents, with Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Esther Rolle, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford, Everett McGill, and Jeff Yagher in supporting roles.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party learns about "Olympia", the codename for several bribes that defense contractor Charlie Reynolds paid Haney when he was vice president.

DNC chairman Joe Hollis asks Douglas to investigate, offering the support of the Democrats for a presidential run in return for his help.

Initially they decide to report Witnaur's confession to journalist Kaye Griffin, but Douglas, reflecting upon their adventure, convinces Kramer to go directly to the White House to confront Haney personally, seeing it as a chance of redemption for their poor choices as presidents.

Tanner catches up with them and is about to shoot them when he himself is killed by a Secret Service sniper who has recognized the presidents from a chance encounter at a gay pride parade during their adventure.

[4] The character of DNC Chair Joe Hollis was initially to be played by Daniel Benzali, but left the role due to scheduling conflicts with his series Murder One and was replaced with Wilford Brimley.

Scenes were filmed along the Broad River where it flows into Lake Lure in Rutherford County, Dillsboro, along the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad; Waynesville, where a giant clown sign crashes through their windshield as they try to flee and where they find the baby in the stolen car is in Marshall, North Carolina; and in Asheville, at the Biltmore Estate.

[6] The film depicts mostly positive (for the time) gay characters, perhaps a little cliched, but overall portraying LGBT people as helpful, decent, upstanding American citizens.

In his memoirs, Garner wrote that he enjoyed working with Lemmon but felt the director "was a self appointed genius who didn't know his ass from second base and Jack and I both knew it.

"[8] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Lemmon and Garner, but felt the film was "a series of cheap shots and missed opportunities".

"[9] James Berardinelli of ReelViews also complimented the actors, writing "Lemmon and Garner slip comfortably into their roles" and saying the movie has "some good one-liners", but he criticized the "failed attempts to inject embarrassingly trite melodrama and recycled action sequences into the story" and also felt the political satire was "weak and obligatory".