"Chatham" tells the story of three retired sea captains -- Zebulon
"Zeb" Hedge (Carradine), Perez Ryder (Dern), and Jeremiah
"Jerry" Burgess (Torn) -- living together in genteel squalor.
They scheme to improve their fortunes by having one of them
solicit a bride through an ad in a Boston newspaper. The loser
of a coin toss must get married and take in the other two as
boarders. But upon the arrival of the Nantucket woman (Mariel
Hemingway) selected from the applicants, the captains get cold
feet. [Quoted from "Not the retiring type: A group of aging
iconoclasts still gets a kick out of an indie film like
'Chatham'". Ethan Gilsdorf