Plot

Jack gets fed up with his publishing job in New York and his girlfriend and moves to Colorado, where he plans to write a novel. There he takes over his uncle's lodge and cafe, but runs into unusual problems with the oddball locals.

Jack, a frustrated writer, quits his job in the publishing world because it's too crass and commercial. After catching his girlfriend with another man, Jack decides it's time to head out west to his uncle's lodge and write his great American novel. At the lodge, he meets a variety of quirky country characters who reject him at first as an outsider, but warm to his sincere effort to fit in. He also reunites with the girl he left behind when he went to the big city, a ski champion who has abandoned her Olympic dreams.

A dramatic comedy about a young man's decision to re-start his life. Jack Buck, fed up with the ease with which mediocre writers can amass millions, quits his publishing job in New York, breaks up with his high-maintenance fiance, and heads West to take over his uncle's lodge and cafe in order to have the peace and time to write the great American novel. Everything goes haywire when he runs afoul of the local mountain folks. Everything goes wrong for this "flatlander."