When screenwriter Byrdie Kirstie Alley returns to Hollywood for work, she hits the wall of ageism. Needing work, she gets her nephew to sell her script as his own.
Once-Oscar-nominated scriptwriter Byrdie Langdon feels cheated now that studios reject her work, even half-unread, just because she and her characters aren't young enough, so she enlists her brother's penniless but charming son Jason "Krueger" Langdon to sell her work under an alias after a "jocular" "Kramer vs. Kramer" rip-off was nearly accepted, which would constitute fraud. But Jason's own ambition--and romantic feelings for the one studio executive Byrdie hoped to reach--get in the way.—KGF Vissers
Byrdie, fast approaching 50 years old, is considered an over-the-hill has been script writer, along with her old studio friends and agent who have all been replaced by younger models. So Byrdie concocts a plan of revenge - get her young charming nephew, Jason, to pretend to be a script writer. With his gift of the gab it is not long before Jason's sold Byrdie's script. Trouble is he's sold it to Andrea, Byrdie's friend, and as the two fall for each other Byrdie's conscience gets the better of her. Finally the truth trickles out and Byrdie has to fight for her script and Jason has to fight for Andrea.
