Ollie (Ben Affleck) is a top of his game N.Y publicist. He has a perfect life with a beautiful wife and a baby on the way. Suddenly things go astray and Ollie finds himself jobless and a single father. He's forced to move in with his father played by George Carlin. Things start to look up for him when he meets another great girl (Liv Tyler) and her daughter and learns that life sometimes throws you a few different directions and you can't choose the path you're given.