Miles Herter is known for Mystic River (2003), A Fool and His Money (1989) and The Golden Boys (2008).
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Three retired sea captains living together in genteel squalor. They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman selected from the applicants, the captains get cold feet.