On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens, thinks it's time for his life to be blessed, too. He desperately wants to escape his lower middle-class existence and become a popular singer and songwriter, but his life is complicated by an ambitious mistress, a crazy wife and a bomb-making son.

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Cast

Swoosie Kurtz

Bananas Shaughnessy

John Mahoney

Artie Shaughnessy

Christine Baranski

Bunny Flingus

Julie Hagerty

Corrinna Stroller

Ben Stiller

Ronnie Shaughnessy

Richard Portnow

Billy Einhorn

Ian Blackman

MP / El Dorado Bartender

Brian Evers

The White Man / El Dorado Bartender