ASA 🎥📽🎬 A Cool Dry Place (1998) a film directed by John N. Smith with Vince Vaughn, Monica Potter, Joey Lauren Adams, Devon Sawa

A Cool Dry Place (1998) Synopsis: Russ, (Vince Vaughn) a single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five-year-old son, Calvin (Bobby Moat). Father and son adjust to their new life in rural Kansas. Eighteen months ago wife and mother, Kate, (Monica Potter) abandoned husband and son. Grandpa from Florida sends Calvin a Man-of-War jellyfish. The jellyfish is obviously dead but the boy wants to keep it and no less names it "Mom". Russ also coaches the local high school basketball team and he kicks disrespectful Noah (Devon Sawa) off the team. The boy's older sister and guardian Beth, (Joey Lauren Adams) dumps a bag of dog food on the coach's windshield. This meeting leads to a new relationship with Beth, a veterinarian's assistant. Suddenly wife Kate reappears and wants to re-assert herself in her husband and son's life. While dealing with a romantic triangle, Russ is presented with the job opportunity of a lifetime to join a major firm in Dallas. While Russ is in Dallas for the job interview, Kate runs off with the boy to Cincinnati. The father follows his wife to get the unhappy son. Russ then turns down the job, Kate gives the boy back to his dad, and Russ and Calvin return to Kansas and Beth.