Plot Summary:When nurse Ann Venables has to go to Africa to help out after a flood,she asks her lazy ex-husband,handyman Jimmy,to move in with their teen-aged children Molly and Alex. However Ann's organized mother Diana,a teacher,looks down on Jimmy and his parenting skills and also moves in. Jimmy is displeased to learn that Ann's doctor boyfriend Howard has gone with her and even more displeased to get a parking ticket. After returning home to find that the supposedly ill Molly has slipped out he and Diana decide that they need to put up a united front.
Jimmy is the only man who, after his divorce, still has to deal with his disapproving, meddling mother-in-law. When his ex-wife volunteers to go to east Africa to help the victims of a natural disaster, weekend-dad Jimmy agrees to take care of their two teenage kids full time in an attempt to win her back!