Made for TV Movie

Title: I Do, They Don’t

Directed by: Steven Robman

Written by: Stu Krieger

Starring: Josie Bissett, Rob Estes and Lyndsy Fonseca

Run Time: N/A

Genre(s): Family

Release: 2005

Status: On DVD

Synopsis:

Young widow Carrie Lewellyn has a successful cookies business and

four kids: Andrew, Moira, little Nathan and little Daisy. Widower Jim

Barber, a furniture maker, also has four: Andrew B, Jef, Lily and Sandy

(Lyndsy Fonseca) (dating seriously with Rusty), plus a

dog, Java. When the two parents, who had been dating for nearly a

year, decide rather impulsively to get married on a trip to Las Vegas in

a casino’s chapel when challenged on stage, without the kids who find

out reading the news in the National Interrogator, that results in a

chaotically large reconstituted family. The first meeting of all ten is a

picnic on neutral grounds, and a disaster at first sight: Andrew L. –

who has a dog allergy- and Sandy know and hate each-other. The

youngest kids soon decide keeping their parents close still is best- the

only place the happy couple can be alone is with the dog in the

garage. and Moira surprise their parents by kissing each-other. The

possibilities for conflicts are endless, and they can coincide too. Jim

tries to get the kids to mingle by having everyone take a “hooky day”

together, bowling boys-girls, and that’s a start, but can it get easy?

When they don’t fight, the kids try to play the parents against each-

other, which even puts their marriage under pressure, as their

respective professional problems do…