Lemon Sky is a 1970 play by Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson

Lanford Wilson was an American playwright who helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...

 first produced at Cafe La Mama. The story is about a fresh out of high school

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 teen from the midwest moving to San Diego, California

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 in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Attempting to overcome the past, Alan is confronted with problems within his new family.

Wilson adapted the play for a television drama of the same name in 1988, directed by Jan Egleson, starring Kevin Bacon

Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....

 as Alan, with Tom Atkins

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 as the father. Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck

Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt , better known as Casey Affleck, is an American actor and film director. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, he played supporting roles in mainstream hits like Good Will Hunting and Ocean's Eleven as well as in critically acclaimed independent films such as...

made his screen debut as Alan's stepbrother Jerry.

Sources

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093403/
• http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/10/arts/tv-reviews-lanford-wilson-s-lemon-sky-on-channel-13.html