A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.

JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father — JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.

After missing his daughter's 12th birthday, Henry embarks on a huge night drinking. The next morning, hungover, he wakes up in Prospect Park -- ten years in the future. With the help of his friend Mike (now with a wife and kid) he has to find a way back to the 2003 and to his daughter's birthday party, whatever it takes.

Childhood friends set out to find treasure on a mysterious private island and discover the secrets behind the family who lives there.