Approaching his uncles' house for the first time, Walter finds some cause for alarm.Michael Caine and Robert Duvall play curmudgeonly old brothers with a taste for derring-do and a mysterious past who live alone out in the sticks. When their city-slicker sister dumps her sissy-boy son on them for the summer, it seems like a match made in hell. But their mutual love of life turns into love for each other as they all open a new chapter in their lives.