A deadbeat dad takes his kids on an amazing day of bizarre bucket list activities to avoid sharing the news that their mother has just died in a car accident, while his brother-in-law hunts them down to tell the kids himself and take them forever.

SYNOPSIS:

Deadbeat dad Al reluctantly agrees to his ex-wife's demand to spend a single Saturday with the children he abandoned three years ago. After one awkward hour standing around his disaster of a trailer eating cereal with water and swatting away bugs, Al gets a call from his brother-in-law, Dan. He delivers the devastating newsx that Al's ex-wife has died in a highway collision on her way home.

Dan tells Al to tell his children the awful news, then drive them over to their grandmother's house. Al refuses. This the first day he's seen them in years and all they're gonna remember is how HE ruined their lives. Again. Instead, he says he's gonna bring them over to grandma's house where SHE can be the bad guy.

The kids pile into Al's rusted-out Camaro, bitter and angry at being tossed away again after only an hour. The older two are especially vocal about what a crappy dad Al he is. Bummed about being seen as abandoning them again, Al offers to take the kids for ice cream before grandma's. That way, they'll have at least one good memory of him before he disappears out of their lives again.

The ice cream shop is so much fun that Al has a twinge of remorse over what's about to happen to them. It occurs to him that this is his kids' last normal day, ever. Hoping to extend their last good day, Al postpones the trip to grandma's to offer each of his four bewildered children one bucket list activity of their choice... yes, even the baby.

Over the next few hours, Al and the kids destroy the town's water system with a science experiment gone wrong, they have a close encounter at a gator farm, pierce a few underage body parts, and sweet talk their way to the top of the tallest roller coaster in the state. Along the way, Al comes to find out that his kids are actually really cool people. He might...even love them.

Just as Al realizes he has to step up and be a father to the children he keeps running away from, Dan catches up with the police close behind. Al is forced to hand over the kids -- but before they haul him away for kidnapping, Al makes a janky-but-heartfelt "handcuffed" confession about their mother, and promises to be a part of their lives from now on.