BENNY & BORIS GO HOME
by Morley Shulman
Two best friends meet on a park bench for their weekly card game. Benny, a workaholic lawyer, can't stop trying to fix Boris's life. Boris, a gas station attendant, just wants to play cards and enjoy their time together. When their conversation turns to Benny's plan to put his aging father in a retirement home—and then to Boris's past relationship with Benny's wife—decades of resentment explode, ending their...
Two best friends meet on a park bench for their weekly card game. Benny, a workaholic lawyer, can't stop trying to fix Boris's life. Boris, a gas station attendant, just wants to play cards and enjoy their time together. When their conversation turns to Benny's plan to put his aging father in a retirement home—and then to Boris's past relationship with Benny's wife—decades of resentment explode, ending their friendship.
Fifty years later, the same two men, now in their eighties, meet again at the same park bench. Time has reversed their fortunes: Boris became a successful businessman while Benny's marriage ended in divorce. As they navigate their way back to friendship, long-held secrets emerge—including a betrayal and an unexpected act of kindness that shaped both their lives. When Benny's son decides to place him in the Sunset Retirement Home, Boris makes a choice that proves some bonds can never truly be broken.
A tragicomic two-hander about friendship, regret, aging, and second chances, told across two acts separated by half a century.
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