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Dave Whiteman and his wife, Barbara, are a nouveau-riche couple in Beverly Hills whose 20-year marriage has become stale and sexless. Dave is the owner of Dave-Bar, a manufacturing business that makes wire garment hangers. He is having an affair with Carmen, the live-in maid, while Barbara tries to relieve her constant feelings of anxiety through shopping and experimenting with various New Age therapies. She admits to having hired Carmen partly to satisfy Dave’s lust. Their teenage son, Max, has a strained relationship with his parents, communicates with them largely through his avant-garde videos, and is having issues around his gender presentation. Dave feels estranged from his 19-year-old daughter Jenny, who he believes is anorexic and making poor life choices. The family dog, Matisse, is also poorly adjusted.

A Chance Encounter Changes Everything

Jerry Baskin, a down-and-out homeless man, attempts to drown himself in the Whitemans’ pool, driven to despair by the loss of his own dog. Dave saves him and offers to let him to recuperate at their home for a few days. He is intrigued by Jerry’s colorful accounts of his past life and former success and wealth, and offers to help him back onto his feet. As they spend time together, meeting Jerry’s friends, Dave finds liberation in observing Jerry’s lifestyle and outlook, which contrasts his own materialistic conformism. Meanwhile, Jerry overcomes Barbara’s hostility and begins a sexual relationship with her. This reawakens her sex drive, and she and Dave re-consummate their marriage.

Transformation and Healing

Jerry soon also has sex with Carmen, who now rejects Dave’s advances as exploitative, thanks to the political literature Jerry introduced her to. He also cures Matisse of its behavioral problems through his empathetic skills, and he persuades Max to come out to his parents in his androgynous persona. Finally, he seduces Jenny, just as she vehemently denounces him as a manipulative psychopath. At an extravagant party thrown by the Whitemans, Jenny tells Dave she has overcome her apparent anorexia and declares herself deeply in love with him. This development impels Dave to physically attack Jerry, and the two, along with several guests, end up floundering in the swimming pool.

Revelation and Redemption

The following morning, Jerry ruefully confesses to inventing the stories he had told of his past and prepares to leave the Whiteman house. Wandering down the back service alley with Matisse (now his firmly bonded companion), Jerry turns to see the entire household gathering in the alley, gazing after him longingly. He silently turns back to rejoin them, and they re-enter the grounds of the house together.

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