"When you're living on the edge, you never know which way you'll fall."
An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed.
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Gabriel Byrne
Roger Ellis
Nastassja Kinski
Charlotte Ellis
Johnny Whitworth
Leon Ellis
Rebecca Gayheart
Lilli
Shirley Knight
Irma
Alix Koromzay
Angie
John Pyper-Ferguson
Davis
Lisa Lord
Lulu
Brian Donovan
Clayton Ellis
Tyler Cole Malinger
Adlai Ellis (as Tyler Malinger)
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