Academy award winner Gene Hackman stars with Liv Ullman in this story of a Western rancher who sends for a mail-order bride. But instead of the compliant woman he sought, the rancher marries a headstrong wife determined to civilize him. Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger.

A mild-mannered ex-Marine (Academy Award-winner Alan Arkin-"Little Miss Sunshine," "Slums of Beverly Hills"), now a California Department of Motor Vehicles test driver in Los Angeles, has an unexpected yet adventure-filled ride when he is kidnapped by two young women (Academy Award-nominee Sally Kellerman-"M*A*S*H," "Back to School"; and Mackenzie Phillips-"The Jacket," "American Graffiti") and, at gunpoint, is ordered to drive them to New Orleans......

Steve, the youngest of nine brothers, has a dream to run the Boyles' restaurant but his overbearing family, his lust for Joyce, the waitress, and his jealousy of Victor, the most perfect human, stand in his way.