After visiting his physician and being warned about his health, Frank (Robert De Niro) takes a train to New York City, where he sits on his son David's doorstep. David (Austin Lysy) never shows up, but Frank sees one of David's paintings in a nearby art gallery window.
Next visit is to daughter Amy (Kate Beckinsale) in Chicago, who tells him it's a bad time to visit. She had turned down her father's earlier invitation to visit, saying that her son Jack was sick. However, once he gets Amy's house, Frank realizes Jack wasn't sick and Amy was just making up an excuse. Frank hits a few golf balls with grandson Jack in the yard of their impressive suburban home. Dinner is uncomfortable with tension between Jack and his father. The next morning, Frank accompanies Amy to her fancy downtown office and hears her agency's pitch for a TV ad. She takes him to the train station to visit his son Robert in Denver. While waiting, Amy introduces her father to a male co-worker of hers.
As Frank travels to each of his children's homes, the film cuts to phone conversations between the siblings. David is in some type of trouble in Mexico, and Amy is going there to find out what is happening; the sisters and Robert (Sam Rockwell) agree to not tell their father about David until they know for sure.
Frank arrives in Denver expecting to see Robert conduct the city's orchestra. It turns out Robert is "only" a percussionist. Robert also tells Frank his visit is at a bad time, as the orchestra is flying to Europe the next day, but this is only a lie. So within hours Frank prepares to take a bus to Las Vegas to visit his daughter Rosie (Drew Barrymore). Frank is adamant that each visit be a surprise, but Robert calls Rosie to warn her of his arrival.
In a lonely hall of the bus station, during an encounter with a drug addict, Frank's bottle of pills falls on the floor, and the drug addict stomps on and crushes them. Frank manages to escape the attack and scrapes up some of the crushed pills, but when he calls his doctor back home for a prescription refill, he doesn't tell the doctor that he is hundreds of miles from home, traveling against doctor's advice. He has a dream that his son David is in jail.
After missing his train, Frank arrives in Las Vegas late, catching a ride part-way from a female truck driver. Rosie meets him at the station in a stretch limo and tells him she was in a big show that just ended the previous week. She takes him to her huge, fancy apartment, where her friend Jilly (Katherine Moennig) brings over her baby for babysitting. Frank overhears a message being left on an answering machine, indicating the apartment is actually borrowed from Rosie's friend. During dinner, Frank asks Rosie why his adult children never talked to him and told him things, when they told their mother everything. He is not comfortable, knowing all his kids are lying to him.
Frank flies back home but — without his pills — he has a heart attack in the plane's lavatory. Frank has another dream of his kids as young children; in the dream, everyone's sitting at the table outside. Although his kids are all young again, they're discussing all of their problems as adults. He knows Amy's husband has left her for another woman and that's why Jack was so tense around him. It's revealed that Jilly's baby is actually Rosie's baby (their mother knew about it, but never mentioned it to their father. David tells his dad that he can't tell him where he is and starts laughing. The kids and their mother always kept the unpleasant truth from Frank. While Frank thought he was encouraging his kids, they thought he was pressuring them and would be disappointed in how their lives really turned out. He ends up having the heart attack while this dream is occurring. Next scene is in the hospital, where he wakes up in bed with Amy, Robert, and Rosie standing around. Frank tells them that he knows something's wrong with David and asks what's going on. All three children start crying and it is revealed that David has died from a drug overdose, which prompts Frank to cry as well. During the night, Frank has a vision about a young David being in his hospital room. He tells him how he was never disappointed in him and he never would be as David grew up.
Frank then visits his wife's grave and talks to her. He tells her all about the kids and how they're all doing fine. Frank goes back to New York to the Art Gallery below David's apartment to buy David's painting, but it has already been sold. The girl at the desk tells him that if any of David's art comes through, she'd let him know. After leaving, she runs out to tell Frank about how great his son was, after realizing the family connection. She shows him another painting by David that is more appropriate to him — a landscape showing PVC-covered power lines made out of glue and macaroni (Frank had worked in a factory making PVC-covered cable for years). The last scene shows the family at Christmas. Frank is cooking the turkey and remembers that he never had the heart to tell his wife hers was overcooked. All three children are around the house helping cook and decorate the tree. It's also revealed that Rosie and Jilly are a couple and are raising the baby together. Amy is dating her co-worker whom she introduced her father to at the train station. The film ends with Frank walking into the dining room, to his family, and a screenshot of everyone sitting at the table together.
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