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The Best Laid Plans

Rating:R (for language and sexuality)
Genre:Drama
Release Date:September 10, 1999
Running time:90 minutes
Cast:Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin, Alessandro Nivola, Rocky Carroll, Michael G. Hagerty
Director:Mike Barker
Producer:Sean Bailey, Betsy Beers
Writer:Theodore Griffin
Distributor:Twentieth Century Fox

Description: Every cause has an effect. Every action has a reaction. So learns Nick, Lissa and Bryce when each tests the limits of their morality, they find themselves intertwined in a dangerous web of misguided friendship and desperate ambition. Nick, Lissa and Bryce are three people who are on the brink of changing the paths in their lives. Bryce, an old buddy of Nick's, is preparing for graduate school and a career in academics. Lissa is following her passion for art. And, Nick is planning on spending what he believes will be a lofty inheritance. But things go awry when Bryce's unexpected return back into Nick's life provides an opportunity to set things right -- and wrong. Each frantic to extract themselves from their predicament, they find they must make difficult moral decisions with life-altering consequences.

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