Being Flynn

“We're All Works In Progress”

Nick Flynn (Paul Dano) is a young writer working nights at a homeless shelter in Boston, trying to hold his own life together. Then his father, Jonathan (Robert De Niro), a con man who calls himself a poet, walks in off the street needing a bed. Paul Weitz follows Nick through the shelter's long shifts, where he hands out blankets and keeps watch over a man he never really knew.