"The best is yet to come."
An aging screen icon gets lured into accepting an award at a rinky-dink film festival in Nashville, Tenn., sending him on a hilarious fish-out-of-water adventure and an unexpectedly poignant journey into his past.
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Burt Reynolds
Vic Edwards
Ariel Winter
Lil McDougal
Chevy Chase
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Clark Duke
Doug McDougal
Ellar Coltrane
Shane McAvoy
Nikki Blonsky
Faith Cole
Kathleen Nolan
Claudia
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Will Buie Jr.
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