In the script, Nick, a young man, heads to Hoboken, New Jersey, to break the news to his two sets of grandparents, both of Italian descent: He's lined up a job in Seattle. Over the course of several visits, some of his family tries to convince him to stay. "I just know these people," Waldorf said of the grandparents. Her late husband, Rick Waldorf, grew up on the East Coast, where there were a lot of Italians in the family.