Hanging with Your DRAMATIC Friend...

Marian Clayton’s usual coffee visit with Renée stalls when Renée insists she has no troubles to discuss. Marian admits that she is nearly broke, and her friend’s reassuring clichés do little to help. A visit from her runaway daughter leaves her holding a baby, while an eccentric actor’s request for a room briefly suggests a way to earn money. The prospect collapses when banker Felix Murdock arrives to foreclose, treating Marian’s house, wig and contact lenses as repossessable property. Soap-opera music and an announcer’s exaggerated cliffhangers turn every new setback into another crisis in Canoga Falls.