Paul and Jamie Buchman are young urban newlyweds who try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.

An apartment-bound Paul and Jamie want to make the most of their Sunday in Manhattan and finally agree to a strict precise agenda.

Jamie persuades Paul to face an old film school rival, Howie, who blames Paul for derailing his film career and forcing him to become a subway token-taker. After an unpleasant reunion at the subway station, Howie stomps outs.

Paul and Jamie get on the wrong track en route to a holiday disaster when they cram aboard a train to visit her parents for their first Thanksgiving together.

In a flashback from three years earlier, bachelor Paul accidentally bumps into attractive stranger Jamie and uses her misplaced dry cleaning ticket to track her down at her office Christmas party to ask her out for their first date.

When Jamie (Helen Hunt) can’t stay away from campus, Mabel’s (Abby Quinn) drastic measures to keep her at bay force Paul (Paul Reiser) to step in when trouble arises.