***SPOILERS*** Having been left at the steps of an orphanage within hours after being born little Eileen was later adopted and giving a loving home by the Birdwells, Ralph & Jane, who raised her as if Eileen was their own biological daughter. Now that's about to come to an end when seven years later Eileen's boozy and looking for a free ride, at the expense of the Birdwell's, mom Mrs. Meade shows up looking to take her back home, the nearest ginmill, with her. With the Birdwells refusing to give into Mrs. Meade's demands she goes out hunting for a shyster, lawyer, to legally get Eileen back to her. It's not long when lawyer Phil Ames show up at Mrs. Meade's apartment with a proposal to get Eileen back that would involve breaking the law. That's in kidnapping the little girl and holding her for a $25,000.00 ransom from the Birdwells.
It takes a while for Ames to get Mrs Meade to go along with his plan by convincing her that it's fool proof. In that even by some impossible chance she get's caught it wouldn't be kidnapping since Eileen is her real daughter! Picking Eileen up outside of school and telling her that she, Mrs.Meade, is her parents new cleaning lady the little girl goes along with her not really suspecting what her real mother,Mrs. Meade, has in store for her. But what's even more surprising is what Eileen as well as Phil Ames have in store for the by now feeling quite confident that she on her way to get a cool 25 G's Mrs. Meade!
***SPOILERS*** Like she left little Eileen at the steps of the orphanage seven years ago Mrs. Meade felt the same way about her now. All that she wanted from Eileen was a meal or booze ticket and nothing else. She wasn't going to spend time and money,like the Birdwells,in bringing up her seven year old daughter. That money was to go for the tab that she runs up in the local bars and liquor stores. But what she did was get a lesson in true motherhood from non other Mrs.Ames and little Eileen themselves. That taught her that motherly love has very little to do with money but almost everything to do with commitment!
It takes a while for Ames to get Mrs Meade to go along with his plan by convincing her that it's fool proof. In that even by some impossible chance she get's caught it wouldn't be kidnapping since Eileen is her real daughter! Picking Eileen up outside of school and telling her that she, Mrs.Meade, is her parents new cleaning lady the little girl goes along with her not really suspecting what her real mother,Mrs. Meade, has in store for her. But what's even more surprising is what Eileen as well as Phil Ames have in store for the by now feeling quite confident that she on her way to get a cool 25 G's Mrs. Meade!
***SPOILERS*** Like she left little Eileen at the steps of the orphanage seven years ago Mrs. Meade felt the same way about her now. All that she wanted from Eileen was a meal or booze ticket and nothing else. She wasn't going to spend time and money,like the Birdwells,in bringing up her seven year old daughter. That money was to go for the tab that she runs up in the local bars and liquor stores. But what she did was get a lesson in true motherhood from non other Mrs.Ames and little Eileen themselves. That taught her that motherly love has very little to do with money but almost everything to do with commitment!