Montgomery "Monty" Capuletti is a hard-living, heavy-drinking, pot-smoking, gambling family man who makes his living as a baby photographer in New Dorp, Staten Island. He loves his wife Rose but has a very tense relationship with his wealthy, snobbish mother-in-law, Mrs. Monahan, who runs a successful department store chain and hates the way Monty acts and lives. There is an added ethnic rivalry between Monty and his wife's family, as he is Italian and they are Irish.
The irresponsible Monty cannot even pick up a wedding cake for his engaged daughter Allison without fouling up. He and his best friend Nicholas 'Nicky' Cerone are smoking marijuana while driving, and an accident destroys the cake...
Directed by James Signorelli
Produced by
Estelle Endler
John Nicolella
Written by
Dennis Blair
Rodney Dangerfield
Michael Endler
P. J. O'Rourke
Starring
Rodney Dangerfield
Joe Pesci
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Candy Azzara
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Music by Laurence Rosenthal
Cinematography Fred Schuler
Edited by Ronald Roose