- Barbara has decided to move from her family home despite her elderly father's protests. However, the movers that come for her stuff turn out to be incredibly incompetent at their job, and her adult kids show up with their own problems.
- It's moving day for big city girl Barbara who can't wait to leave her old house. She plans to move to Albuquerque, New Mexico and open an art gallery with her old friend, a divorced woman. Fred, Barbara's sweet elderly father who may be suffering from an early stage of dementia asks her to leave the house to him, but she plans to take her dad to live with her. However, what she doesn't know is that him and their aging African-American maid Mildred have another reason to stay. To make things more complicated, Barbara's tomboyish daughter Jennifer arrives to inform her that she's quitting college and opening a garage, since she wants to be a car mechanic. That's when the movers arrive. It's a family outfit run by depressed fifty-something ex-cabby Harry who's suffering from midlife crisis and can't climb a flight of six stairs without getting tired, his goofy son Joey who secretly wants to be a ballet dancer and Harry's friend Bruno, who's always drunk. Complications don't end there, either. Barbara's cheating ex husband, Charlie, arrives to try and get back together with her, their other daughter, a teenage punk girl who's single and nine months pregnant, arrives to prepare for her delivery date, Joey and Jennifer seemingly have a crush on each other, and Barbara's favorite piano ends up being the first victim in the hands of her well-meaning but incredibly incompetent three movers. This tense and unusual situation forces everyone to face each and come clean about their wants and needs, which may just be exactly what they all need.
- Barbara (Candice Bergen) is a 40-ish, newly-divorced woman waking up on Moving Day. The divorce is done, the house has been sold and it's time to move on.
Barbara calmly narrates the travails of moving out of her beloved home in a deadpan, completely-resigned-to-her-fate delivery as she reflects upon the day's disasters: an asthmatic mover (Bruno Gerussi) who assures her that her piano will be safely hoisted down from the second floor; Bruno's ballet-dancer son (Keanu Reeves, in an early role) who is smitten with Barbara's free-spirited daughter; and her alarmingly serene father (Ted Stidder), who just may be sinking into senility.
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