A couple of days before his sixty fifth birthday, Bill Parish, a business tycoon (Hopkins), starts to have premonitions about death. The recent heart attacks he has been having, which are accompanied by voices lead him to this premonitions. Although Bill Parish has always had a privileged life being the patriarch of a loving family, a successful leader and chief in a communication corporation, and a squire of a country estate; this disturbance (the voices) …showed first 75 words of 1943 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1943 total…short while a student at NYU ("Hot Dogs for Gaugin" starring Danny De Vito), Brest wrote and directed his first feature, "Hot Tomorrows" (1977), during a fellowship program at the American Film Institute. He achieved "wunderkind" status at age 28, directing veteran performers George Burns, Lee Strasberg, and Art Carney in "Going in Style" (1979), which he also scripted. Brest next developed the sci-fi thriller "War Games" (released in 1983) but was pushed off in favor of John Badham."