Just Add Water

Just Add Water is a 2008 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Hart Bochner. The film stars Dylan Walsh as a hardworking man living in the same small town in which he grew up, Danny DeVito as a gas station owner, and Justin Long as a meth dealer. Plot This film is an offbeat romantic comedy about Ray Tuckby, a decent guy with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, California. After discovering that his wife has had an affair with his brother Mark and that his son Eddie is actually Mark's son, he decides to start his life all over again. Ray's mother and sister die after they fight over his mother's secret lemon meringue pie recipe. After their funeral, his mother's lawyer gives Ray his share of his mother's legacy, including the recipe. He gives the legacy to Eddie for his college expenses, but Eddie says he is working for the local teenage meth baron, Dirk. After Ray meets and takes encouragement from Merl, a new Chevron gas station operator, Ray begins to dream again.