Benjamin Greene Jr.

"Slow Down... You're Dating Too Fast!" is based on an age old conflict in three parts: How should men and women interact? What is the best way to actually ask someone out on a date? And then once you're there how should you act?

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

ポルノ雑誌「ハスラー」の創刊者ラリー・フリントは、J・オナシス(ケネディ元大統領夫人)のヌード写真をスクープした号の大ヒットで、アメリカン・ドリームを手に入れる。しかし、そのスキャンダラスで不道徳な内容で、ついには猥せつ罪で起訴されてしまう。憲法修正第１条に基づく「表現の自由」を盾に、ラリーは最高裁判所に上訴するのだが・・・。