
Assembly-line worker and family man George (comic George Lopez) is promoted to manage an airplane parts factory in Los Angeles. George is clearly devoted to his wife, Angie, and their children, Max and Carmen, but his live-in, insensitive, difficult mother makes things complicated.

Ernie considers marrying a troubled woman, and George risks their friendship to keep him from making a huge mistake.

George is unhappy with Max's less-than-compassionate dentist so he asks his bosses to change the company dental plan.

George tries to get Max help in school by telling his long-lost sister, Linda, who is the superintendent of schools, that she was given up for adoption at birth.

When a major earthquake shakes Los Angeles, George's repressed childhood fears resurface. Despite a positive assessment of the house from a contractor, George refuses to go back in, and he and Carmen set up a tent in the backyard.