Hele den pukkelryggede familien Portokalos bekymrer sig om Toula, som netop har rundet 30 – og stadig er ugift. Toula danser Zorbas dans i sine forældres græske restaurant og med stanken af hvidløgsbrød hængende ved sig sværger hun, at det er tid at komme videre i livet. Da hun, til familiens store fortrydelse, får et job i tantens rejsebureau, møder hun Ian Miller, som hun umuligt kan præsentere for sin far: Ikke nok med at Ian er udlænding, han er også vegetar!
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Politiet i Saint-Tropez iværksætter en større aktion mod farlige billister. Cruchot påtager sig ivrigt opgaven. Da han jagter en Mercedes, som kører alt for hurtigt, begår Cruchot selv en masse lovovertrædelser - for hvilke han bliver alvorligt irettesat. Cruchot opdagere senere, at den pågældende Mercedes holder parkeret foran politistationen, og han er meget opsat på at uddele bøder. Men det viser sig, at bilens ejer er den unge smukke Josépha, og Cruchot bliver øjeblikkeligt forelsket.
En uheldig indbrudstyv, der havde tænkt sig at lave årets sidste bræk juleaften bliver i stedet involveret i en temmelig utålelig families kaotiske julefest. Det er næsten værre end fængslet.
The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
Following both the death of her father-in-law and a divorce, Jesse, a New Yorker, returns to a small town to live with her now widowed mother-in-law. Jesse struggles to fit in with the local townsfolk who don’t welcome her with open arms to say the least. Jesse becomes acquainted with the local pastor, her widowed brother-in-law, falling in love with him, much to the dismay of the community. Things get even more complicated when her ex-husband comes calling, suspiciously trying to win her back. Between her love life and entangled in-laws, Jesse is tested as she seeks the answer to where she truly belongs.
A young African American man, reeling from the tragic loss of his wife, travels to rural Maine to seek answers from his estranged mother-in-law, who is herself confronting guilt and grief over her daughter's death.
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? Who was at fault? What about the wedding party? Should they welcome the guests? Play music? Pour the vodka? Who will cut the cake? From word to word, polite smiles turn into public washing of dirt. And finally a real bomb goes off... And in the meantime, the wedding party turns into a wild party. And no one is bothered by the absence of the newlyweds.
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
Janet Flanders is a small-town, unsophisticated young woman who is seduced by the fantasy of romantic love; she believes that someday her prince will come to sweep her away. Then she meets handsome Brett Becker; she believes she's found the man of her dreams -- little suspecting he is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite. Deep into her illusion that Brett loves her, she moves to Chicago to be closer to him, deluge him with calls and love notes, tells her family about her boyfriend Brett, and buys an engagement ring. Her obsession with him leads her from intrigue and eventually to murder.
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.