莎莉（德鲁·巴里摩尔 Drew Barrymore 饰）并不知道，曾经和自己各种柔情蜜意你侬我侬的“好男人”亨利（克里斯·埃里斯 Chris Ellis 饰）其实是一位有妇之夫，更糟的是，这位花花公子竟然因为心脏病突发而死亡了。 不久之前，亨利的老婆碧翠丝（凯瑟琳·欧·哈拉 Catherine O'Hara 饰）得知了亨利的不轨，为了查明真相，她将这一重任托付给了儿子多利（卢克·威尔逊 Luke Wilson 饰）和安格斯（杰克·布塞 Jake Busey 饰），很快，两人便得知了莎莉的存在。脾气火爆的安格斯决定给莎莉一点颜色瞧瞧，但多利却发现，自己怎么也无法向莎莉下手，因为在内心深处，他早已经深深的爱上了这个漂亮的女孩。Hamburger joint waitress Sally Jackson is pregnant. When Beatrice, the wife of the father, finds out about his infidelity, she sends her sons from a previous marriage, military pilots Angus and Dorian Montier, to scare the living daylights out of him. Their gunship does such a good job, without hitting him, that he dies from a heart attack. Worrying about radio interference that night, they investigate who might have heard too much within the fairly empty reception perimeter, and soon discover only Sally could, still ignorant about her affair with his step-dad Henry. Dorian takes a job there to be sure, but soon falls for her himself, while mother-obsessed moron Angus would do anything to anyone for her honor...
