Gone Are the Dayes is a 1984

1984 in film

-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 television film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont

Gabrielle Beaumont

Gabrielle Beaumont is a British film and television director.Her directing credits range from Hill Street Blues to Star Trek: The Next Generation. She is best known for directing, writing and producing the TV special Diana: The People's Princess...

 and starring Harvey Korman

Harvey Korman

Harvey Herschel Korman was an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions beginning in 1960...

, Susan Anspach

Susan Anspach

-Private life:Anspach was born in New York City and was raised in Queens, New York. She graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City in 1960. Paul Simon was a neighbor. She enrolled in the music department at the Catholic University of America...

 and Robert J. Hogan

Robert J. Hogan

Robert J. Hogan is an American actor. While not a stranger to the big screen or the stage, Hogan is best known to audiences for his highly prolific career in American television which began in 1961...

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Plot

When the Daye family goes out for food at a Japanese restaurant they witness a gangland slaying. A federal agent, named Mitchell, persuades the parents to be witness in the trial against the gang boss, who ordered the hit. When Mitchell is forced to babysit the parents' children, he regrets it when it turns into pure nonsense.