Nick Kegan (Jeff Bridges) had long accepted the official story of his U.S. president brother's assassination a generation ago. With a second shooter's deathbed confession, however, his unhinged patrician father (John Huston) sends him on an cross-country investigation marked by murdered witnesses and stunning reveals. Offbeat blend of political thriller and black comedy, based on Richard Condon's novel, co-stars Anthony Perkins, Belinda Bauer, Eli Wallach, Sterling Hayden.