尼尔森（大卫·弗利 Dave Foley 饰）一直都因为和老板的女儿（詹妮弗·提莉 Jennifer Tilly 饰）谈恋爱而沾沾自喜，因为不出意外的话，尼尔森将成为老板的女婿，这也就意味着他可以顺理成章的成为公司的继承人。可是，让尼尔森没有想到的是，某一天，老板宣布了下一任总经理的人选，而这个人竟然不是他，被愤怒冲昏了头脑的尼尔森对老板发出了死亡的威胁。 最终，尼尔森还是冷静了下来，当他想要找到老板向他道歉时，却震惊的发现老板已经死了。而曾经扬言要杀死他的自己成为了最大的嫌疑人。为了证明自己的清白，尼尔森不得不踏上了逃亡的旅途。
Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father. Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can't hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time. The two are shaped by this - Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself - as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, One Big Happy Family. Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, I thought she was dead, Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of near-misses and almost encounters. Gwen is hired to ghost-write Francesca's autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca's property. When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca's building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick's attention - and wins his heart.
