![]() Dave later confronts the counselor at his home, beating him up and warning him that he is in store for worse. When he returns, Dave slaps Russ, Noreen's boyfriend, when he finds him dealing with his son's predicament. Despite this stress and an all-night drinking binge, Dave impresses the Hello America interviewers and is eventually offered the job. While away, Dave learns that his son attacked his counselor, claiming that the man wanted to perform oral sex on him. When Hello America invites him to New York, he takes his daughter with him and bonds with her by helping her shop for a more suitable wardrobe. The job would nearly quadruple his salary, but means relocating to New York City. To prove himself to his father and possibly reconcile with Noreen, his estranged wife, Dave pursues a weatherman position with a national talk show called Hello America. As he becomes more and more depressed, Dave takes up archery, finding the activity a way to build his focus and calm his nerves. The situation worsens when Robert is diagnosed with lymphoma and given only a few months to live. ![]() Dave also feels overshadowed by his father, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Spritzel, who is disappointed in Dave's apparent inability to grow up and deal with his two children. A successful weatherman at a Chicago news program, David Spritz is well paid but garners little respect from people in the area who throw fast food at him, David suspects, because are resentful of how easy his high-paying job is.
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