Tom Cruise won the Golden Globe Award for Best supporting Actor for this film. Host Jimmy (Philip Baker Hall Philip Baker Hall) is running out of time with cancer, his daughter is obsessed with her neighbor, and there is nothing his wife can do about it. Jimmy doesn't know how to tell his daughter about himself. Jimmy's Gala Stanley (Jeremy Blackman Jeremy Blackm an) is about to break the record set by Downey (William H. Macy William H. Macy) 30 years ago, but he doesn't know that Downey can only work in an electronics store. Sir Partridge (Jason Robards Jason Robards) is terminally ill, and his young wife Linda (Julianne Moore Julianne Moore) is genuinely in love with the old man when she married him for money. Nursing doctor Phil (Philip Seamer Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman) brings Frank (Tom Cruise Tom Cruise), the old man's beloved son who has run away from home for many years, home in the hope that he can understand his father.