The movie opens with Lee, Sam Elliott's character, doing a voiceover commercial for BBQ sauce. ( Beef, it's what's for dinner) An aging actor with no remaining job options, Lee is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, probably the least survivable cancer there is. Facing death...well if you're old enough to ponder your own mortality, you should appreciate this movie . And it's Sam Elliott, still handsome and still the sexiest voice on planet Earth at the age of 72.