Young ANDREW, left as a child with his fun but borderline irresponsible uncle LARRY, is clearly—at the age of fifteen—the “adult” in their wacky household. Now at the tricky threshold of manhood, Andrew’s world is turned inside out when Larry decides to rent a room to the disturbingly beautiful, 25-year-old, KELLI RATHBONE, confronting Andrew with the challenges facing any 15-year-old boy in the presence of a funny, quirky, female goddess.

SYNOPSIS:

Eight years ago, during a random visit, Andrew’s mother went for a walk and never came back, leaving young Andrew with his wacky uncle, Larry, the grown-up who never grew up. No one ever said anything or did anything, not officially, simply waiting for mom to return while knowing that wasn’t likely.

Growing up with Uncle Larry was a blast. It was like growing up with a larger version of a fun-loving child. With a decidedly off-beat sense of humor and an irrepressible spirit, Larry made every day an adventure, while navigating his own life the best he could, as a periodically employed writer.

However, now, as Andrew hits the age of fifteen, the fun kid act is wearing thin. Larry’s still hilarious but also seriously underemployed due to his continuous hijinks that don’t limit themselves to the household. While Andrew exercises his sizeable brain, earning perfect marks in every subject at school with ease, Larry looks for work and entertains both Andrew and a collection of imaginary friends.

It’s impossible to be mad at Larry for long. But there are storm warning on the horizon. The school wants to know Andrew’s status and why Larry doesn’t take part in parent events. Meanwhile, as Andrew dons his perfectly-pressed school uniform, Larry makes toast and cereal for Andrew and an imaginary bear, and explains why his latest job interview didn’t go so well.

But, Larry has a solution to their joint (at least in Larry’s mind) dilemma: He’s placed an ad to rent Andrew’s room, creating what might be the final straw that breaks the back of the final camel. That is, until the ring comes at the door and it opens on the smiling, and stunning, Kelli Rathbone, at which point Andrew’s position on the subject changes without warning, triggering his adolescent hormones in indescribable ways and -- to him or anyone else -- and plunges Andrew and his nutty, charming Uncle Larry into a cauldron of craziness covering three decades of delicious hormonal drama: a fifteen-year-old boy, a twenty-five-year-old beauty, and a forty-five-year-old man, all too far apart for anything to happen -- probably -- but close enough together for everything to invade the imagination.

From time to time, it is virtually impossible to figure out who is the Grown-Up in this mixed-up mess. Maybe it's KARL, the family bear.

GROWN-UPS is a two-part pilot series consisting of two half-hour episodes.

GROWN-UPS | PILOT