A long-married woman finally falls in love with her husband on one hilarious night, with the help of uninvited guests, imaginary friends, a memory drug, drama therapy, a jewel thief, and indigestion.

SYNOPSIS:

DENNY and GRACIE COLLINS (60) met at a Christmas party exactly 40 years earlier. But Denny's Night of One True Love sours, when Gracie acts as cold as their gas-log fireplace. While they nap after dinner, Denny is visited by "figments of his imagination" -- best friends, JENNY SHERITON and ROBBY BELLINI as 19-year-old hippies from 1971. Jenny insists on taking Denny to the wild party upstairs to meet Gracie. Denny scoffs off the dream later to realize that Jenny and her sidekick are here to stick around.

A visit from Denny's and Gracie's practical-joking daughter, BEA (30), further disquiets the evening. She arrives from Big City with a rich boyfriend, WINSTON GABLES (30), in tow, announcing she is pregnant and engaged after just three dates. The joke unnerves Gracie, who startles everyone more by announcing she is selling the house--tonight. Winston, a practicing Drama Therapist, tries to help, but the "perfectly calm environment" is further interrupted by the figments and sultry realtor, SALLY SWIFT (40), potential house buyer, TAD DOOLEY (40), and a termite inspector, DILLON DANIELS, and old playmate of Bea's.

Pandemonium ensues as Young Jenny and Young Robby become figments of everyone's imagination. All the Christmas party guests violate the sanctity of Bea's purse, thinking they are borrowing harmless aspirin. However, Bea, a neurochemist, is developing memory drugs for Alzheimer's patients, and the pills have two side effects on non-Alzheimer's patients. First, they cause suggestive hallucinations where consumers see and hear "ghosts" of recently described people (always Jenny and Robby as hippies from 1971). Second, the pill causes diarrhea. The hectic evening intensifies as the still free-thinking adult versions of JENNY and ROBBY (60) stop by for a holiday drink, and to provide Gracie support. They also take the pills, resulting in more madness and confusion.

It's anything but a perfectly calm environment for Winston's dramatic reenacted of the hippie party of the night Denny met Gracie, meant to discourage Gracie from selling the house. The figments are in their element. Brushes with the past, races to the bathroom, and a fortuitous visit by OFFICER PATTY BLACK (30) complicate and resolve the chaotic evening that results in the capture of the infamous Bling-'n-Bobble Burglar, Bea falling in love with Dillon, Winston falling in love with Officer Black, and Gracie finally falling in love with Denny. The teenage spirits, Jenny and Robby, take all the credit, but it is all Gracie. It truly is the Night of One True Love.

HALF-A-LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT