Return of the Secaucus Seven
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Katie (Maggie Renzi) and Mike (Bruce MacDonald) prepare a vacation house in small town New Hampshire for a weekend reunion with their oldest friends, a varied group of former campus activists on the edge of their 30's. Mike grew up in town, left to go college. They are now both high school teachers.

One of their friends, J.T. (Adam Lefevre), an aspiring singer-songwriter contemplating the big move to Los Angles, is hitchhiking picturesquely with his guitar. The driver who pulls over to pick him up is another member of the core group, Frances (Maggie Cousineau), a medical student who has been carrying a torch for him for years.

Meanwhile, J.T.'s former girlfriend, Irene (Jean Passanante), is still on the road with her new steady, Chip (Gordon Clapp), a speech-writing colleague in the office of a wishy-washy liberal Senator. Chip is apprehensive about being the only newcomer in this gathering of old friends.

At the local summer stock theater, the Eastern Slope Playhouse, Mike picks up comp tickets for the evening performance that have been left there for him by Lacey (Amy Schewel), one of the performers. Frances and J.T. pull up to the house as he is leaving. As Katie welcomes them to the house, Chip and Irene pull into the local gas station and encounter Ron (David Strathairn), a car-loving townie who was one of Mike's pals in high school.

At the house, the group falls back easily into their old verbal sparing routines, bringing each up to date in the process. Katie takes a call from Maura (Karen Trott), an aspiring actress, and learns that she is breaking up with Jeff (Mark Arnott), the former radical spark plug of the group who now works as a drug counselor. When Maura arrives, alone, she is most anxious to talk things over with J.T., who is Jeff's former college roommate and best friend.

At the theater that night, Frances attempts to explain to Chip the intricate pattern of couplings and un-couplings that have occurred in the group over the years. Maura and Lacey, the lead actress in the production, were college-acting rivals, and Lacey and Mike used to be an item -- which helps to account for the hilariously vicious comments Katie dishes out during the stilted performance.

After an awkward backstage confab with Lacey, Frances sadly watches J.T. walking on ahead with Maura, discussing Jeff and the break-up and beginning to acknowledge their own mutual attraction. The others drive on ahead to prepare a cake (complete with frosting guitar) for J.T.'s 30th birthday.

After a game of charades, everyone turns in. Frances lies awake listening as J.T. and Maura act upon their feelings, right on the living room rug. In bed with Mike, Katie admits that the many break-ups she has witnessed among her friends have generated some new anxiety about her own relationship.

During a round of volleyball the next morning, Mike explains the fraught relationship between Maura, J.T., and Jeff. As it happens, Jeff has just arrived in town, where he runs into Ron, who asks him to pass on an invitation to the house guests to join him later for a scratch game at the high school basketball court.

Jeff shows up at the house as the volleyball game is winding down, creating an instant buzz of tension. J.T. makes a point of taking Jeff aside to tell him about his new relationship with Maura. "It is definitely over between us," Jeff assures him. But during the basketball game with Mike, Chip, Ron and Howie (John Sayles), another of Mike's local high school friends, Jeff's anger rises to the surface. He plays a violent checking game against J.T. and knocks him to the ground. Strangely, the incident seems to defuse the tension between them.

During the game, Frances and Irene discuss the new relationship between J.T. and Maura, and share their worries over J.T.'s future. Howie's wife Carol (Marisa Smith) arrives during the game to tell him that he's been called in to work that night; she brings along two of their three children, Stacy (Jessica MacDonald) and Benjamin (Benjamin Zaitz), to the astonishment of Katie and Maura, who can't imagine being saddled with kids.

Interactions evolve during a trip to the local swimming hole: Jeff and Chip enjoy an argument about politics; J.T., broke as usual, borrows some money from Mike; Jeff reveals to Mike that he is holding some heroin given to him by one of his drug-counseling clients; and Ron explains to Frances his get-rich scheme for promoting snowmobiling as a competitive sport.

Afterwards, when all the house guests pitch in to cook a picnic dinner, Chip scores some points with the group by executing a dead-on imitation of the senator that he and Irene work for -- and by proving to be the only person among them in possession of even a small quantity of marijuana.

During a visit to the local tavern, Chip and Jeff continue their political debate. J.T. sings. Howie tells his hometown friends, Mike and Ron, that being a father is an all-consuming activity that is probably worthwhile. J.T. and Jeff fascinate a starry-eyed young music critic (Nancy Mette) and her friend Amy (Betsy Julia Robinson) with some high-flown nonsense. Jeff and Maura fight and clear the air. And Frances and Ron decide to sleep together.

As Ron and Frances check into the local motel (where Howie is working the night shift on the front desk), the others head home, pulling over to study a dead deer lying beside the highway. When they are hauled in by the cops on suspicion of "bambicide," Jeff proudly reels off a complete list of his prior arrests -- from memory. Mike tells the story of "the original Secaucus Seven" and the night they spent together in jail in New Jersey, when they were pulled over on their way to the March on Washington and spent the night in jail when a gun and some drugs were discovered in their borrowed car.

That night, Jeff and J.T. reaffirm their friendship while trying to decipher the barfing noises drifting in from the john. (They decide it must be Katie.) The next morning only Chip seems to have survived the evening's drinking unscathed, wolfing down a huge plate of eggs. Irene offers to finance J.T.'s move to Los Angeles; he is amazed and grateful, but insists he wants to try to make it there on his own.

The friends depart in groups of twos and threes, leaving Mike and Katie to survey the devastation.

"What are we going to do with all those eggs?"