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Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, she and Sammy miss their school field trip and are stuck with their parents. Melanie and Jack project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other but end up needing to rely on each other to watch Sammy and Maggie as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammys propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggies tendency to wander.
Architect Melanie Parker, the divorced mother of six-year-old Sammy, feels the need to take control of everything in her life as no one, including her mother, Rita, housewife sister, Liza, or musician ex-husband, Eddie, seems to provide any meaningful support, especially when she or Sammy need it. New York Daily News investigative reporter Jack Taylor, the divorced father of six-year-old Maggie, Sammys classmate at a Montessori school, and whose ex-wife, Kristen, lives in the same building as the Parkers - has a seemingly cavalier attitude toward life and parenting. He needs to take unexpected one week custody of Maggie as Kristens childcare plans during her and her new husbands honeymoon fall through at the last minute. It is in their roles as parents in making Sammy and Maggie miss their school field trip on a Circle Line harbor cruise that Melanie and Jack meet, their differing personalities, especially in relation to their kids missing the trip, which is an initial and immediate source of animosity between them. Without any other seeming option on their respective busy work days - Melanie, who has an important meeting with her very particular boss, Smith Leland, and some lucrative clients on a final pitch, and Jack, who has to deal with a possible libel suit against the paper when one of his sources in a story about mayoral corruption and the mob reneges on earlier statements, the crux of the story itself - they reluctantly enter into an agreement to share childcare responsibilities for Sammy and Maggie for the day, Melanie for the time outside of her meeting, and Jack outside of a press conference at City Hall later in the day. As they get into one mishap after another, both of a professional and personal nature, much of those with Sammy and Maggie just doing what six-year-olds do, Melanie and Jack can only admit to themselves that they cant get the other off of their minds in a romantic sense, anything happening from those thoughts if they can both get over their differences and admit to the other what they are feeling.
Michelle Pfeiffer
Melanie Parker
George Clooney
Jack Taylor
Mae Whitman
Maggie Taylor
Alex D. Linz
Sammy Parker
Charles Durning
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Ellen Greene
Elaine Lieberman
Joe Grifasi
Manny Feldstein
Pete Hamill
Frank Burroughs
Anna Maria Horsford
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Kristen
Barry Kivel
Yates, Sr.
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George Martin
Smith Leland
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Eddie
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Celia
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