SYNOPSIS:

Faced with the demise of his restaurant chain, foreclosure on his home, his wife divorcing him, an unwinnable lawsuit brought against him by his ex-partner and an announcement by his daughter that she's getting married - next week - Yardley Slocomb, flamboyant, former restaurant-business icon and celebrity ("dying is easy, soufflés are hard") is a desperate man. Having lost everything he owns in court to his thieving ex-business manager, Bing Riviera, (a Brooklyn kid who made it big in the world of shady financing), Yardley realizes that when you've hit rock bottom, you’ll do just about anything. So he goes to see Bing, the man who stole his money and his life from him, whips out a gun and tells him he's going to kill him and collect the money that will be generated by the enormous publicity and countless tabloid offers for his story that will flood in, so he can pay for the wedding of his daughter, Ashley. Finger on the trigger, gun trained on a shivering Bing, Yardley is talked out of the act by Bing’s level-headed bodyguard, Vince, who reminds him he won't be able to attend Ashley's wedding from prison. “I only wanted to do something good for my family, just once,” Yardley says as he leaves. But, galvanized by the idea of the vast amounts of money that could be generated, Bing teams up with Yardley to pull off his own kidnapping as a PUBLICITY STUNT. Together they stage Bing’s fake murder on a live radio show, hide out dressed as two hot babes, and wait for the offers to roll in. Unfortunately for Yardley, the media is interested in, but not willing to pay for, his story. It’s then, at his wits'-end, that Yardley finally has his epiphany. Realizing that he needs to focus his attention on the most important thing in his life, his family, Yardley hoists his skirt and drags an irate Bing out of Manhattan and back to New England with every cop in the country on their tail, men trying to pinch their butts, and various talk/news show hosts trying to scoop their story. Will Yardley get Natalie the money in time to pay for the wedding? Can he talk her out of divorcing him? Will the booze-guzzling Bing live through it? Most importantly, will Ashley get her chance to stand at the altar, the very thing for which Yardley has laid his life, and male dignity, on the line? All these questions loom large as this raucous comedy reaches a crescendo that will leave the audience rolling in the aisles, Yardley reunited with Natalie, and Senoritas Yardley and Bing hugging at the church as the wedding march is played.

PUBLICITY STUNT