
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.

Carmen leaves home after an argument with George, and the family finds her in Haight-Ashbury as a groupie for rap artist Chingy.

Carmen wants her independence and remodels her room without her parent's consent, prompting George to charge her for living expenses.

When George forgets his wedding anniversary, he scrambles to get enough money for a nice ring. A few failed schemes later, he promises Angie something even better: to renew their wedding vows.

George learns he has a half brother (Lou Diamond Phillips) when he tries to take out a loan for Carmen's private school.