What are you going to do now?Ben: I was going to go upstairs for a minute.Guests: I meant with your future, your life.Ben: Well, that""s a little hard to say.Ben is hesitant, embarrassed by all the attention, and lacking in social graces.By the family swimming pool, Ben receives words of advice from Mr.McGuire (Walter Brooke), a family friend, in one of the most memorable lines from film history:Mr.McGuire:I just want to say one word o you - just one word.Ben: Yes sir.Mr.McGuire: Are you listening?Ben: Yes I am.Mr.McGuire:""Plastics.""Ben: Exactly how do you mean?Mr.McGuire: There""s a great future in plastics.Think about it.Will you think about it?Ben: Yes I will.Mr.McGuire: Shh! Enough said.That""s a deal.[In fact, history would prove Mr.McGuire""s advice o be prescient and wise!] Sweating and unable to take any more badgering and unwanted advice, feeling generally repugnant of the upper middle-class values that surround him, Ben realizes that he is totally estranged from the financial measures of value that are being thrust upon him for his future.The 146 minute United Artists drama was the controversial telling of part of Sinclair Lewis"" 1927 satirical muckraker novel regarding the charismatically engaging, but scandalous Midwestern salesman turned evangelist preacher in he 1920s.You talk too much.If I""d known how much you talked, I""d have never come out of my coma!"According to Miss Plimsoll, he had been "expelled for conduct unbecoming a cardiac patient.[She deludes herself about her father""s interest in her and his occupation - a diplomat in Washington.