汤姆·汉克斯片中饰演广告界红人大卫·巴斯诺。他事业有成,生活优悠,忽然接到一通电话:结婚三十六年的母亲决定离开他的父亲。此时大卫不得不回过头来跟父亲相处,赫然发现父子俩的生活方式和观念竟然南辕北辙。David Basner is a successful advertising executive who has it all: Money, happiness, and women who want him. Then one day his world falls apart when his mother leaves his father. Now, he must balance his life between his mother, who is happy with her newfound independence, and his father, a recently laid off salesman who is hard-headed, stubborn, and hides a lot from David. Now David must cope with the downfall of his family and his life.