Wealth can't spare three male generations of the dysfunctional Jewish New York Gromberg family grief or grim reality. However successful in life, Alex (Michael Douglas) never felt pleasing pride or proper parental support from perky patriarch Mitchell (Kirk Douglas), who sarcastically still implies his values and priorities on everything, tolerated from their women's sake. Alex starts despairing his modern permissiveness may ruin his own bright firstborn, college-boy Asher (Cameron Douglas), unlike adoring kid-brother Eli (Rory Culkin). A dorm-drug-bust pushes things to the limit- or beyond?

Astor Place and Lafayette Street, Manhattan.

Subway Station, East 8th Street and Lafayette Street, Manhattan.

Pathway (near Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir) Central Park, Manhattan.