A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.

Smart-aleck lawyer gets a visit one day from an ex-girlfriend who tells him that her son is his. Enter writer Dale Putley, a depressed goofball who meets with the same ex-girlfriend who tells him her son is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover that they've been told the same story by the same woman. Which one of them is her son's actual father? And where is that son? He is following around a rock band called Sugar Ray, so Jack and Dale hit the road to Sacrament and find "their" son--drunk and lovestruck. They take him to their hotel room, but he escapes and they must team up to find him again, get him home, and find out which of them is his father.—Dylan Self <[email protected]>

Dale Putley (Robin Williams) is an eccentric, depressed writer. Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) is an uptight lawyer with a decent relationship. The two have nothing in common and have never even met, but each has been involved with Collette Andrews (Natassja Kinski) at some point. When her teenage son Scotty runs away, she cons both Jack and Dale into locating him and returning him to her. Why? Because one of them is Scotty's father and she doesn't know which one. When the two men meet and discover her scheme, they decide to team to up to search for him. They find him at a concert, but the return trip becomes a chaotic adventure as the two feuding personalities attempt to not only try to keep the boy close to them, but to also help him with his own personal problems. But could Scotty actually be in more trouble than they think?—Scotty's real father

After Scott has a fight with his father and runs away and his father refuses to go after him, his mother, Collette, goes to one of her former boyfriends, lawyer Jack, and tells him that he's her son's real father. Jack initially refuses, so she goes to another boyfriend, Dale, who goes off looking for Scott. Eventually the two men meet and realize that they are looking for the same boy and that Collette told each that he is the boy's father. What follows is a mad chase, because the teen does not want to return home.—[email protected]