Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, have both gone through the process of getting a divorce. Maggie is the mother of Sammy. When Jack is suddenly left alone with Maggie one morning, he is so stressed that he forgets that Melanie was supposed to accompany Maggie to school. This is how Jack and Melanie come to meet. As a direct consequence of this, both of the children are required to spend the day at home with their parents rather than attending the school field trip. The two adults transfer their unfavorable ideas of ex-spouses onto each other, but in the end, they need to rely on each other to babysit the children since each must save his work. The fact that Sammy has a habit of stuffing things up his nose and Maggie has a tendency to walk around aimlessly both contribute to the comedic value of the situation.
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Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, have both gone through the process of getting a divorce. Maggie is the mother of Sammy. When Jack is suddenly left alone with Maggie one morning, he is so stressed that he forgets that Melanie was supposed to accompany Maggie to school. This is how Jack and Melanie come to meet. As a direct consequence of this, both of the children are required to spend the day at home with their parents rather than attending the school field trip. The two adults transfer their unfavorable ideas of ex-spouses onto each other, but in the end, they need to rely on each other to babysit the children since each must save his work. The fact that Sammy has a habit of stuffing things up his nose and Maggie has a tendency to walk around aimlessly both contribute to the comedic value of the situation.
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