MacLaine, Weaver Join 'Wild Oats'

Wild Oats
Shirley MacLaine and Jacki Weaver will topline indie comedy "Wild Oats" with Alan Arkin in negotiations to join the Wild Pictures production, to be directed by Howard Deutch.

Story centers on MacLaine's character accidentally receiving a Social Security check in the amount of $900,000 instead of the normal $900. At the incessant urging of her best friend -- portrayed by Weaver -- she deposits the money and escapes the small Ohio town for Las Vegas -- where their new life seems to be short lived when they discover that they have become media sensations and fugitives overnight, forced to outwit a trio of conmen and dodge Social Ssecurity agents.