1 of 3 | Left to right, Brian Muller, Edward Burns, Brian d'Arcy

James and Erica Hernández star in the dramedy, "Finnegan's Fouresome," which was released on video-on-demand platforms Friday. Photo courtesy of Republic

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NEW YORK, June 19 (UPI) -- Writer, director and actor Edward Burns says Finnegan's Foursome isn't autobiographical, but real conversations about family, loss and grief with people he knows helped him develop the dramedy.

"Anytime I come up with an early notion of what I want to explore as a writer, I will kind of do these informal interviews with friends of mine or from at a dinner party and one of the early ideas I had for the script was siblings or family members who have differing opinions on their parents," Burns, 58, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.