Supporting actors include Lance Guest, Eugene Butler, David Faustino, Martin Ferrero and Michael Dudikoff.
The two chat about their pasts, and Libby tells Herb about the family he left in Brooklyn, including her younger brother Robbie.
He is also on the verge of losing Steffy, who has been asked on a date by another man and has been waiting a long time for Herb to make a commitment to her.
Libby meets a young man there named Gordon, and they take part-time jobs together valet parking at a celebrity-filled private party.
Libby comes home at 3 a.m. and tells Herb about putting business cards on car windshields that read, "Sunset Valet Parking.
Libby gradually realizes that her trip's true purpose was to reestablish a relationship with her father, and she decides to return home.
[6] Siskel's print review for the Chicago Tribune gave it 1½ stars out of 4, and called it "another exercise in annoying manipulation from the one man who I wish wasn't in pictures".
"[9] Variety called it "a moving family drama, peppered with the author's patented gag lines and notable for sock performances by Dinah Manoff and Walter Matthau".
[10] David Ansen of Newsweek wrote, "Ross and Simon co-produced the movie, and they obviously think they're on the trail of psychological realism when in fact they're peddling dull, sentimental bromides.