Brooklyn car salesman Joey O'Brien (Williams) must deal with the ever-increasing pressures in his life: he has an ex-wife demanding alimony and college savings from him, a daughter who's missing, both a married mistress and a quirky single mistress who are both desperately in love with him, plus a two-day deadline to either sell 12 cars or lose his job, and last - an outstanding loan to a Mafia Don which he must either quickly repay or lose his life.

On the day of the big dealership car sale (and incidentally, the final day of O'Brien's deadline), the car dealership is taken hostage by a machine gun-toting motorcyclist (Robbins) who believes his wife (Sciorra) is cheating on him.