***SPOILERS*** Taking upon himself almost Herculean efforts Charlie Samson, Don Murray, is not only holding down a job as a full-time bookkeeper at a major NYC brokerage house but is also spending all his free time from work taking collage classes to earn a degree as a CPA. It comes as a big shock to Charlie when his wife Helen, Patricia Smith, tells him that she's expecting their first child that coming February.
It just happens that one of Charlie's fellow workers Arnold Craig, Philip Abbott, is to get married that weekend and reluctantly, skipping a collage class for the first time in six months, Charlie agrees to attend his bachelor party secluded to take place that evening. It turned out that Charlie as well as those who attended Arnold's bachelor party got an education in life and human relationships that in the end changed their lives around and for the better at that as well!
Getting tanked up on both beer and hard liquor Charlie and his friends that included life long bachelor, and best man at Arnold's wedding, Eddie, Jack Warden, as well as married men Walter, E.G Marshall, and Kenny, Larry Blyden, ended up letting their hair down and exposing to each other their deepest and darkest secrets. Eddie the big swinger and womanizer that he is showed that he was a man who couldn't bear to be alone even for a moment. Without booze friends and women Eddie was nothing but a lonely soul without any direction in life.
Walter 48 years old with two teenagers is obsessed with the thought that he's soon going to die, from an asthmatic attack, if he doesn't move to the dry, of humidity not booze, and year round hot state of Arizona. Kenny about the only normal person of the group of beer swelling and woman grabbing bookkeepers showed how normal he was by leaving the party when it started to get out of hand and was never seen or heard from again in the movie.
As for Arnold, the man of honor at the party, he started to get freaked out as his wedding day, some three days off, approached in his fears that he, being a virgin, won't be able to satisfy his recently divorced-or is it widowed-as well as experienced, in sexual matters, fiancée. Charlie who's a straight as an arrow no fooling around family man soon loses his cool as the hot for him and really wanting it 25 year old woman beatnik Carolyon Jones, or the Existentialist in the movie credits, puts the squeeze on him at a local Greenwich village anything goes and free for all swingers party.
As the dawn starts to approach Charlie together with his friends realizes what fools they made of themselves and try to put all the pieces of their shattered lives, because of the party that got out of control, back together. Both Charlie and Eddie having unknowingly, due to their childish needing, had Arnold brake off his engagement to his future bride finally get the by now totally drunk Arnold to go back home in Queens, to his parents, to make up with his girl before she leaves him both him and dry at the altar.
Charlie who was about to drop his night classes in collage and become a full time carousing midnight scorer, or all day snorer, goes back to his wife Helen who was, like Arnold's fiancée, about to walk out on him and move back to her parents. It took those heart wrenching and both boozing and womanizing 12 hours of partying the night away that in the end showed Charlie how good he's had it all along. It also showed Charlie that the life of a swinging and irresponsible bachelor, like his friend Eddie, was not his or his fellow married friends at the office cup of tea or bowl of borscht.
It just happens that one of Charlie's fellow workers Arnold Craig, Philip Abbott, is to get married that weekend and reluctantly, skipping a collage class for the first time in six months, Charlie agrees to attend his bachelor party secluded to take place that evening. It turned out that Charlie as well as those who attended Arnold's bachelor party got an education in life and human relationships that in the end changed their lives around and for the better at that as well!
Getting tanked up on both beer and hard liquor Charlie and his friends that included life long bachelor, and best man at Arnold's wedding, Eddie, Jack Warden, as well as married men Walter, E.G Marshall, and Kenny, Larry Blyden, ended up letting their hair down and exposing to each other their deepest and darkest secrets. Eddie the big swinger and womanizer that he is showed that he was a man who couldn't bear to be alone even for a moment. Without booze friends and women Eddie was nothing but a lonely soul without any direction in life.
Walter 48 years old with two teenagers is obsessed with the thought that he's soon going to die, from an asthmatic attack, if he doesn't move to the dry, of humidity not booze, and year round hot state of Arizona. Kenny about the only normal person of the group of beer swelling and woman grabbing bookkeepers showed how normal he was by leaving the party when it started to get out of hand and was never seen or heard from again in the movie.
As for Arnold, the man of honor at the party, he started to get freaked out as his wedding day, some three days off, approached in his fears that he, being a virgin, won't be able to satisfy his recently divorced-or is it widowed-as well as experienced, in sexual matters, fiancée. Charlie who's a straight as an arrow no fooling around family man soon loses his cool as the hot for him and really wanting it 25 year old woman beatnik Carolyon Jones, or the Existentialist in the movie credits, puts the squeeze on him at a local Greenwich village anything goes and free for all swingers party.
As the dawn starts to approach Charlie together with his friends realizes what fools they made of themselves and try to put all the pieces of their shattered lives, because of the party that got out of control, back together. Both Charlie and Eddie having unknowingly, due to their childish needing, had Arnold brake off his engagement to his future bride finally get the by now totally drunk Arnold to go back home in Queens, to his parents, to make up with his girl before she leaves him both him and dry at the altar.
Charlie who was about to drop his night classes in collage and become a full time carousing midnight scorer, or all day snorer, goes back to his wife Helen who was, like Arnold's fiancée, about to walk out on him and move back to her parents. It took those heart wrenching and both boozing and womanizing 12 hours of partying the night away that in the end showed Charlie how good he's had it all along. It also showed Charlie that the life of a swinging and irresponsible bachelor, like his friend Eddie, was not his or his fellow married friends at the office cup of tea or bowl of borscht.