The role is a big turnabout for Ms. Harris, who played a mean, badgering fiancée in For she removed most of her makeup and let her hair droop.

Linda’s life suddenly changes when Abe has a severe stroke while at a sperm-donor clinic he has been secretly visiting for 25 years. We see a hilarious tidbit of the nun-and-priest dirty movie he was watching when he was felled. Fearing impending death, Abe mumbles to Linda that he wants to meet a son he has sired. Digging through the clinic’s records, she discovers one in Tampa, Fla., and goes to find him and bring him back in time.

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