Mary Astor plays a widow whose grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor in this offbeat comedy directed by Jules Dassin. When Susan (Susan Peters) and Jeff Evans (Elliot Reid), the almost adult children of widowed author and lecturer Jo Evans (Astor), discover that their mother has fallen in love with staid professor Michael Kingsley (Herbert Marshall), they intervene to try to end what they believe is an inappropriate relationship. However Susan has her own romance on the way which gives her understanding of her mother's position. The end doesn't come however until all sorts of tricks are played by the children which when the adults find out ends with the traditional punishment of an over the knee spanking for both. Sadly the shot of the pert Ms Peters being spanked over Mary Astor's knee was one of the last the last times she was seen on film before her tragic accident which left her paralysed from the waist down.