 Daniel Hillard, an out-of-work voice actor with extraordinary imitative skills, has a blowout argument with his interior decorator wife, Miranda. Then and there she decides she wants a divorce. Since Daniel has no steady source of income, Miranda gets a primary custody of their three children Lydia, Chris and Natalie and poor Daniel has only limited visitation rights. And so Miranda places an advertisement for a housekeeper while she works. Daniel had decided the best way to spend secret time with his children is to become the ideal housekeeper. With the perfect wig, with a little makeup and a dress for occasions, Daniel has become Mrs. Doubtfire an old devoted British nanny. Daniel goes to the Hillard residence as Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire and is quickly offered the job.