Mr. Wonderful

8/5/2026

Finding our purpose in life can be a struggle that poses huge challenges but pays few dividends. So it is for three generations of men in the Benton family – Brian (Michael Madsen), a curmudgeonly, problem-drinking, hypercritical 60-year-old history professor in danger of being forced into early retirement; Danny (Robert Laenen), Brian’s 30-something drug dealer son who’s having trouble getting his act together and experiencing fidelity issues with his gorgeous but flippant romantic interest, Dawn (Brittany Underwood); and Robert (Robert Miano), Brian’s 89-year-old enigmatic father who’s battling dementia with the aid of his loving and devoted but long-suffering wife, Claire (Priscilla Barnes). All three men are lost in their own ways, but they have one goal in common – a search for meanin