Of course the title gives the plot away, but it doesn't answer thequestion: Who was Wilbur Stump, and why did Bernadine Sweeney, upstanding matronof Burlingame, CA, devout Catholic and mother of six, elope with him only a yearafter her husband Ray Sweeney passed on? Bernadine tells it her way: When she methim, vacationing at the Russian River, Wilbur was a veteran piano bar musician,alcoholic, balding, missing a few teeth, married seven times; "it wasunthinkable that I would fall in love with him, but I did." Thus Wilbur,"drunk with love" became the newest member of the Sweeney menagerie,and, as revealed in Skip Sweeney's latest foray into the family skeletal closet,the focal point of bitterness, controversy, and also, in the end, love. The rawmaterial that Skip Sweeney has to work with is priceless: an eccentric family(they all seemed so normal in Studebakers!) willing to explore and explode oncamera, the perennial stash of photos and home movies from the Bernadine SweeneyStump museum, and the delightful musical compositions of Wilbur Stump on thesoundtrack. What he creates out of all of this is a many-faceted portrait ofBernadine, of Wilbur in absentia, and of the American family as a humorous andbizarre battleground.