Upside Down Cake

Adele admires the shoes her husband bought for her as she gets in the Uber on the way to help her sister, Dolly, dispose of her husband’s ashes. Never mind that she wasn’t invited. A pineapple on the seat next to her and she tosses it into the front seat by the driver. She notices the way he looks at her as her phone rings. Its the third sister, Marion’s won’t start and of course she’ll pick her up if she’s ready when she gets there. She’s ready to happily introduce Adele to the driver, Francis, who gives her his card in case Adele needs him later. As Dolly and Marion embrace, Adele steers her suitcase down the hall. “What’s she doing here?” Next morning, Adele takes charge of breakfast so they can get on with spreading the ashes on the approach to a hated green at their golf club. Several bottles of wine later, and we learn that Adele’s husband does all the cooking.“Let’s hear it for men that are good for something. Well, they’re all good for something.” says Dolly. Adele chimes in “Chris is good at so many things.” Curling Adele’s toes isn’t one of them, but at least he wasn’t cruel. To change the mood, Dolly pipes in with “what I wouldn’t give for an Upside Down Cake right now.” Like the one their dad used to make. “I don’t think Daddy ever got that cake right.” Leading the charge, Adele sets out to start Dolly’s car…but it won’t start. Well its not really her car, its her husband’s. You see, Dolly, the girl who could do anything, doesn’t drive. What the ….? Alarmed that Dolly doesn’t drive, Adele berates Doll but Dolly throws back that Adele doesn’t… well, maybe having that kind of husband. To solve the transportation problem,Marion calls the Uber driver, Frances, but he’s working a wedding. Dolly asks Stephen, the widowed doctor friend of her husband, might help out. Marion asks him to take them to the golf club. Standing in the fairway, Dolly hesitates, overcome.“Neither of you remember when we took Mama’s ashes to the lake.” Adele he thrusts her hand into Robert as a dweeby club employee on a golf cart radios “We got another widow with a box…” Dolly’s neighbor, Lana, stops working in her roses just as, back at Dolly’s, they get out of Stephen’s SUV. “Doesn’t sound peachy, Anything you need? Want me to punch someone for you?” Lana sees Stephen “Hey Stevie. How’s it hanging” What else can Stephen say but “Hanging just great, Lana. Thanks for asking.” As s the door bell sounds. Lana has a delivery of her own, a plate of brownies. As Dolly sees Lana out, “Thanks, I think.” Adele figures out it wasn’t just cocoa in the brownies. Lana knocks at the back door. Marion answers, steps on to the patio to join her. Marion befuddled by Lana, Marion confirms her lesbian status. But Lana assures her, “I was married to a man. He was my best friend. Broke his heart. Was a long time before our daughters were OK with it. We survived, but he can’t even talk to me anymore.” Their flirting is interrupted as Adele steps on to the porch eating a pop tart. Adele is in a twit about the brownies but Lana fires back with “How dare you eat a pop tart after my gourmet brownies.” Dolly steps out with Robert under one arm and a pop tart. Lana is bemused as she watches them eat the pop tarts in the same sequence.. corners then.. As Lana leaves, Adele admonishes Marion “What’s that about?” Marion heads next door to visit Lana. The doorbell sounds and the sisters crash into each other at the door to discover Stephen. Dolly invites Stephen to the patio for a drink, coming on to him with a vengeance. Adele cautiously calls Frances. Dolly’s overly sexual come on startles Stephen, who leaves, confused and upset. Dolly stumbles to her bedroom with the last bottle of wine. Stephen’s drawn to her bedroom window. Dolly is so upset, she ends up on the floor tangled in the sheets. Stephen comes through the window to hold her. Adele opens another bottle of wine just as Frances rings the bell. He’s not sure why he came. She’s married, but… Adele hasn’t been in this place in a long time. She hasn’t felt THAT in a while. Marion has also found something she hasn’t known in a while with Lana. They sample the kegs of beer on her porch and throwing pots on a wheel (think “Ghost”) and end up with something like breaking furniture. Adele is wrapped around Frances. Dolly lies, clothed, with Stephen. Adele and Stephen have no idea Frances and Adele are in the den until its too late. Of course, Marion returns from Lana’s at just that instant. Embarrassment, hiding the boys.The sisters clash. 
Embarrassed, Stephen and Frances rush into the front yard to escape the fray. Lana beckons them over, offering “Good stuff, none of that lite horse whiz” from her keg and commiseration. Sisters. Dolly “I AM me. What the hell does he mean by that?” Adele is leaving. Marion silently urges Dolly to stop Adele. “Stop!” A fight about husbands ends with “At least he screwed me!” “Dressing nice doesn’t make him gay!” “He’s gay as Boy George. Just dresses better.” Adele admits “It’s been a long time since I did that to a man.”Dolly exclaims, “Time we moved on” grabs Robert’s ashes, taking them determinedly to the master bathroom. Adele and Marion follow her to find her urinating in the toilet. “What are you doing.” “Flushing Robert.” Marion takes her turn. Adele takes her turn with a grin. She drops her pants, sits, and closes the door. She comes out with “I really didn’t like that man.” Marion waves away the fumes as Dolly pushes the lever and the toilet backs up. “Damn you Robert. I’ll get the plunger.” Marion and Adele figure out the Upside Down Cake recipe. They need that pineapple from Frances’ cab, and brown sugar (Stephen) and rum. And Frances’ car is still out front. Marion follows voices to Lana’s and arranges the pineapple and brown sugar and sets out with Lana for rum.Dolly and Adele and Frances and Stephen assemble the upside down cake. They need the rum. now. Frodo bounds through the opening front door with Lana’s dog in hot pursuit. “But you don’t allow dogs.?” Dolly, “That was Robert’s rule, not mine.”