Adapted from Broadway stage play by Jeff Daniels, "Guest Artist" centers on Joseph Harris (Jeff Daniels), a legendary but troubled playwright who comes to a small Michigan town at Christmastime to mount his latest play. Greeting the cynical New Yorker is a young, aspiring writer who challenges his literary hero to be the icon he’d hoped for. Harris wants no part of any of it, and desperate and scrambling to keep Harris in town, the young man must face his hero and explore the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.