A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.

• Roger Gimbel Productions
• EMI Films
• Charles Durning
• Irene Tedrow
• Mare Winningham
• Philip Brown
• George Parry
• Herb Edelman
• Debra Winger
• Constance McCashin