| Director | Garry Marshall |
|---|---|
| Genre | comedy film, drama film, teen film |
| Runtime | 113 min |
| Country | United States |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $25 million |
Rachel Wilcox is a promiscuous, heavy-drinking young woman, whose drug addiction and rebellious ways are starting to spiral out of control. With her repeated negative behavior, she has violated the final rule in her mother Lily's San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take her, Lily hauls her to the one place she swore she would never return to: her grandmother Georgia's house in Idaho.
Georgia Randall lives life by a few definitive rules—God comes first and hard work reigns—and whoever is under her roof must do the same. Saddled with her granddaughter for the summer, she needs great patience to understand her fury. Georgia gets her a receptionist job for Dr. Simon Ward, the local veterinarian, who also treats people. His nephews, Sam and Ethan, are often at Georgia's.
As Simon does not show interest in Rachel or other women, she thinks he is gay. However, his sister Paula Richards tells her he is mourning the death of his wife and son, killed in a car accident three years earlier. He refuses to have sex with Rachel even when she tries to seduce him but retains some feelings for her mother Lily, who he once dated.
Rachel performs oral sex on Harlan Wilson, not yet married and still a virgin because of his LDS (Mormon) religion. He confesses to his girlfriend, June Smith, who is shocked. Later, a team of LDS girls spy on Harlan and Rachel to make sure he does not have sex again. After chasing them with Harlan's truck, Rachel explains to them that what happened is over and they can go back to having their summer fun.
They agree, but tell Rachel to go home, leading her to threaten them by saying if they have anything to do with her and Harlan again, she will find all of their boyfriends and "f*** them stupid". This shocks the girls into stopping their spying and insulting of Rachel.
While trying to make a point to Simon about her survival, Rachel bluntly says that her stepfather, Arnold, sexually molested her when she was between the ages of 12 and 14. Seeing the effect of her revelation, Rachel tries to convince him she lied. However, Simon tells Georgia about the abuse, and in turn, Georgia tells Lily, who initially thinks she is lying.
Heartbroken, Lily comes to believe her daughter. She begins to drink heavily and asks Arnold for a divorce. When he arrives at her house, Georgia tells him to leave, refusing to let him in the house. She hits him with a baseball bat and finally threatens his new Ferrari. Rachel sees that Lily cannot accept the truth, so she lies to her and says she wasn't molested.
At the motel where Arnold is staying, Rachel tells him that she has a videotape of them having sex when she was 14 and, while seeming not to believe her, decides to back away from the family. She demands 10 million dollars if he does not keep Lily happy and admits to him she lied and told Lily he didn't molest her because she does not want her to be upset anymore. On the way back to San Francisco, when Arnold tells Lily he is giving Rachel his Ferrari, Lily realizes he is guilty.
Lily flies into a rage and Arnold finally admits to having molested Rachel, saying that she seduced him, that Lily's alcoholism drove him to it, and that Rachel enjoyed it. Arnold drives off and leaves Lily to walk back. Georgia, Simon, Rachel and Harlan catch up with her in Harlan's pickup truck, and a tearful Rachel apologizes to her mother for her behavior. Harlan tells Georgia he is in love with Rachel, and plans to marry her when he returns from his two-year mission.