Four women struggle to reconcile their secret dreams, biggest fears, and deepest feelings as topsy-turvy events shake up their lives. Polly vows to be the perfect mother-in-law, but then her son marries Amy, a Birkenstocked gal whose organic farm and family ooze a rather creepy serenity. Beth, a sheltered, shy and brilliant professor-to-be, meets Sonny, a rugged, sexy carpenter who sweeps her off her feet. But Beth may not survive his loud, affectionate, athletic family. Finally pregnant with her first child, workaholic paper company heiress Carolyn is forced by high blood pressure to do something totally alien: relax. But that proves hard to do when her seventysomething father elopes with a young bank clerk. Free-spirited photographer Julia has married a widower with a young daughter--a spoiled, manipulative girl who comes with a meddling ex-mother-in-law.
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