Plot

Plot

Warning: spoilers!

Charlie MacKenzie is a beat poet living in San Francisco, and the older son of two Scottish immigrants (Stuart and May). His mean solar day job is unclear but mayhap he works at the coffee shop Roads where he performs or works nearby in the City Lights bookstore.

Charlie is unlucky in love, due to his fear of commitment. I of his about popular poems at the beat poetry night at Roads is "the adult female, woman, woman" poem, in which Charlie tells the crowd why his latest relationship has failed. Most recently, he broke up with Sherri who may or may not have stolen his true cat. Recently he's as well dated Jill who was unemployed, and therefore to Charlie, in the Mafia. And then in that location's Pam who smelled exactly like beef vegetable soup.

Charlie's friend Tony, who is an detective with the San Francisco Law Section tells him he'southward paranoid. Then again, Tony believes the way to wait hip while surreptitious is to dress similar a circa-1970s pimp. He reminds Tony to act normal when hanging out with his parents the following night, and while driving to meet everyone he stops off to buy a haggis for his parents at "Meats of the World".

We shortly meet Charlie's family unit -- his brother William who has a pet eel, and his eccentric parents Stuart and May. They're Scottish and proud of it. They take a Scottish Wall of Fame, listen to the Bay City Rollers, beverage McEwan's and lookout the Scottish soccer team on tv. Charlie has no time for soccer, and helps his female parent make dinner while telling her of his breakup. She shows him an article in "the paper" -- actually the entertainment magazine, Weekly World News -- about a mysterious woman who has been marrying men under fake identities and and so killing them on their honeymoons. To Charlie, this makes some sense considering to Charlie, marriage is death.

Charlie before long visits "Meats of the World" over again subsequently seeing the owner, Harriet, in the street, and offers to help her out equally his father was a butcher and he used to work in the store. Later on work they go along a date, and later spent the night together.

The next morning time, we meet Harriet's sister Rose. She explains that they alive together, although Harriet ofttimes comes and goes just always winds up back with her sister. She warns Charlie to be careful.

As Charlie and Harriet become closer, she tells him of her life and many of the details seem to match upward with the mysterious killer from the newspaper. At offset, Charlie brushes this off but soon becomes paranoid when she begins to shout the name of one of the dead men in her slumber. Later taking Harriet to come across his parents, he comes increasingly paranoid and eventually breaks upward with Harriet worried that she may kill or get out him. After several days of feeling sad for himself, Charlie is surprised past a call from Tony who says someone else has turned themselves in for ane of the murders and in a fugue of elation, Charlie rushes to see Harriet and repent. She tells him she loves him, simply that he blew it.

Luckily for Charlie, Harriet is a sucker for shell verse on her roof and after writing and performing a terrible poem about her, she welcomes him dorsum. Weeks go by and their relationship seems stronger than ever, when Charlie proposes to Harriet at his parents wedding ceremony. Harriet reluctantly agrees, and they soon marry.

Charlie takes Harriet to a secluded mansion for their honeymoon, a identify where many of the original beat poets would stay. At the mansion, he receives a call from Tony saying that his original lead was bogus and that he faxed a photo of Harriet to the families of the 3 victims and information technology checks out -- Harriet is the murderer!

Charlie doesn't desire to let on that he knows and tries to play information technology off as cool, only when the power goes out he begins to lose his absurd. Tony is on his manner, but has to charter a aeroplane and commandeer a automobile to get to Charlie in time. Back in their room, Charlie admits he knows near Harriet'southward husbands and locks her in a closet until Tony can arrive to arrest her.

At this point, he finds a annotation apparently written by him to Harriet proverb he tin can't accept the pressure and that he's leaving. This is when the truthful axe murderer is revealed -- Rose. She doesn't want to lose her sister, and says that Charlie is no dissimilar to the others. It seems Harriet didn't know this either but is locked in a cupboard unable to aid Charlie every bit Rose chases him on the roof of the mansion with an axe. Tony soon arrives and not knowing the truth, gain to put Harriet in handcuffs and is manifestly oblivious to the axe fight on the roof. Soon he sees the error of his ways and comes to the rescue of Charlie who has overcome Rose.

The moving-picture show ends with Rose being lead away by the police, seemingly happy that she's been caught finally, while Charlie performs his "woman, woman, woman" poem for the final time, now inverse to admit that he'due south no longer afraid of delivery.

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