Jack Nicholson is a retiring insurance salesman, bubbling with bottled-up bitterness at life's disappointments; when his wife dies, he decides it's time to start living, so he jumps in his Winnebago and heads for his unfilial daughter and her irritating fiancè in Denver, where he finds more than he bargained for - including his highly unconventional future in-law, Kathy Bates.
