Variety reports that Universal Pictures has acquired "Sunny and 68," a drama that Vince Vaughn will star in and Gavin O'Connor ("Pride and Glory") will direct. O'Connor co-wrote the script with Anthony Tambakis. O'Connor will produce along with Vaughn.

The film is described as a drama with comedic overtones and tells of a washed-up poker star who finds himself in debt of $500,000 to bookies. He heads home to upstate New York for the first time in 20 years to take back the cash he had been sending his mother. While home, he finds that his mother has been dying of cancer and raising what turns out to be his 5-year-old daughter. He learns that while he was away, his mother had been trying to convince his former high school girlfriend to become the girl's eventual caretaker.