Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini lives on Venice Beach, works as a temp and is lucky enough to be engaged to the handsome Dr Kevin Fields. But Fields has the mother from Hell, Viola, a disgraced chat show host just out of rehab who will do anything short of murder to stop her son marrying Charlie. Fonda is wonderfully OTT as the acid-tongued, relationship-destroying harridan but Lopez gives as good as she gets in Robert Luketic's romantic comedy.