In Los Angeles, California, when businessman Walter Davis cannot find a date to accompany him to a business dinner, his brother, Ted Davis, offers to set him up with his wife’s cousin, Nadia Gates. However, Ted’s wife, Susie Davis, warns Walter not to get Nadia drunk because she loses control and “gets real wild.” When Walter picks Nadia up, he is stunned by her beauty and wonders why she does not have a date every night of the week. Nadia says she was in a relationship that ended three months earlier. She moved back home to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but now has returned to Los Angeles. The two stop by an art gallery opening, but run into Nadia’s ex-boyfriend, attorney David Bedford, who is jealous of Walter and causes a scene. Nadia and Walter quickly leave. Walter stops by a grocery store to get a bottle of champagne, then takes Nadia to a recording studio to listen to his friend, Stanley Jordan, play guitar. Walter reports he once dreamed of being a professional guitarist until he discovered how little money he would make doing it. He says he is happy now because he has a good job and a car and plans to buy a condominium next year. Walter offers Nadia champagne, but she declines, saying the last few times she drank, she “went crazy.” However, Walter persuades her that one glass will not make her crazy. By the time she finishes one glass, Nadia says she is beginning to feel it. At the restaurant, a tipsy Nadia trips and grabs hold of Walter for balance, tearing his sports coat breast pocket in the process. After being seated, Walter and Nadia order more champagne. Walter’s co-worker, Denny Gordon, comes over and teases him about his torn jacket. Nadia, now drunk, says it is the latest fashion trend and then tears Denny’s breast pocket. Denny flirts with Nadia, slipping her his card. She is offended and calls Denny a “slimeball pig.” While Denny and Walter argue, Nadia goes to tell Denny’s date what he did. His date leaves without a word, and Denny chases after her. When Nadia causes a scene with a waiter, Walter’s boss, Harry Gruen, comes over to investigate and is accidently sprayed in the face with champagne. Nadia goes to Gruen’s table to talk to his dinner guests, millionaire Mr. Yakamoto and his wife, who is dressed like a geisha. Nadia causes a scene, ultimately pulling off Mrs. Yakamoto’s wig. An embarrassed Mrs. Yakamoto runs to the bathroom and Nadia follows, telling her that she does not have to be subservient to her husband and that she is entitled to fifty percent of her husband’s assets under California’s community property laws. Nadia returns to the dining room, announcing that Mrs. Yakamoto needs a divorce lawyer and that her husband is worth $100 million. Several people rush to help Mrs. Yakamoto, while Harry Gruen fires Walter. After they leave the restaurant, Nadia’s ex-boyfriend, David, finds them and is distressed that Walter let her drink. Walter and Nadia drive away, but David follows in his car. They elude David, then stop at a discotheque, where Nadia and Walter have a romantic slow dance. However, David arrives at the disco and starts a fistfight with Walter. Soon the entire dance floor is embroiled in a fight, while Walter and Nadia slip out. Nadia and Walter drive away, but when they get out of the car, thieves strip parts from Walter’s car, including the car seats. When they return to the car, three thieves try to rob Walter, but when police arrive, they throw their gun into Walter’s car. Believing Walter is drunk, the police make him do a field sobriety test, which he passes. When they drive away, sitting on boxes since the seats are gone, Nadia sobers up, saying that she has a chemical imbalance and is allergic to alcohol. David catches up with them and tries to run Walter’s car off the road, but instead David ends up crashing into a flour warehouse. Nadia wants to go home, but an angry Walter insists on taking her to a party in the Hollywood Hills which she mentioned earlier. There, Walter causes a scene, drinking too much, playing with the food on the buffet and even throwing pâté at a woman’s breasts. Nadia takes Walter upstairs, telling him to pass out on the bed, but David comes into the room a few minutes later and provokes a fight. Walter lunges at David and they both fall out the window, landing on tables of food. They continue fighting and Walter notices the gun in the back of his car. He starts shooting at David, telling him to dance. Police arrive to arrest Walter. The next morning, Walter’s brother, Ted, picks him up at the jail, but the hung-over Walter throws up in his car. When Ted reports that Nadia paid his bail, Walter demands to see her. He tells Nadia he will likely go to jail, but wants to know how much he owes her, so he can repay her, then never see her again. She tells him the bail was $10,000. Nadia asks David to represent Walter in court, pointing out that he is partially responsible for Walter’s legal problems. David agrees to defend Walter only if Nadia agrees to marry him. She reluctantly accepts. In court, Judge Harold Bedford chastises Walter for acting as his own attorney. Just then, David arrives, announces he is Walter’s lawyer and confers with the judge, who also happens to be his father. David tells his estranged father that he will move out of state if he finds Walter not guilty. However, David also wants his parents to host his wedding to Nadia at their home and invite their influential friends so he will have some big names to drop as he sets up a new law practice in another state. Harold Bedford agrees to his son’s terms and finds Walter not guilty. As they leave the courthouse, David tells Walter that he and Nadia are getting married. David’s sister-in-law, Susie, gives him a goodbye note from Nadia in which she apologizes for the trouble she caused. She says he is a wonderful man and encourages him to start playing guitar again. Shortly after, Walter buys a new guitar. He also buys a box of chocolates and uses a needle and syringe to inject them with alcohol. On the night before the wedding, Nadia spots Walter’s car parked near David’s parents’ house and gets excited. Walter hides in a tree overlooking the lawn where the wedding will take place, but a guard dog named Rambo spots him, so Walter dives into the swimming pool to get away. After everyone has gone to bed, Walter sneaks into the house to talk to Nadia, but is prevented by others moving around the house. The next morning, a messenger service delivers the box of chocolates laced with alcohol and Nadia eats almost the entire box. By the time Harold Bedford walks her down the aisle, Nadia is drunk. While the minister performs the ceremony, Nadia announces that she does not love David and asks the guests if two people should marry if they do not love each other. The guests say, “No,” but David insists he loves her more than anything. Nadia tells the guests she loves someone else. Hearing this, Walter comes out of the pool house to make his presence known. Nadia and Walter jump into the pool and kiss each other, as the guests applaud. Nadia and Walter get married and honeymoon on the beach as Walter serenades her with his guitar.