托尼在迈阿密经营着一家入不敷出的旅馆, 女人是他的另一软肋 (雪儿,他目前的女神,比托尼还没责任感).唯一靠谱的是他12岁的能干儿子阿来. 当托尼想让古板的兄弟马里奥再次保释他时, 马里奥提出条件: 要么放弃儿子, 要么和 "贤良淑德的女人"结婚.对此托尼和阿来只是耍太极,此时符合条件的女人埃莉诺却出现了..Tony Manetta runs an unsuccessful Miami hotel, on which he can't meet the payments. Another liability is his weakness for dames (Shirl, his sexy current flame, is even less responsible than Tony). But a solid asset is Ally, his sensible 12-year-old son. When Tony wants stolid brother Mario to bail him out again, Mario makes conditions: give up Ally, or at least get married to a "nice, quiet little woman" of his selection. Tony and Ally just play along to be diplomatic, but when the woman in question proves to look like Eleanor Parker...