Zgodbo o štorastem gospodu Beanu, ki stalno povzroča kaos in tako sproža smeh, pozna ves svet in velja za televizijsko klasiko. Film se začne, ko se zmedeni Bean po spletu naključij znajde v Ameriki, kjer ga zamenjajo za pomembnega poznavalca umetnin. V svoj dom ga sprejme David Langley z ženo in dvema otrokoma. Verjetno ni treba poudarjati, da Bean njihovo življenje spremeni v popoln kaos, za piko na i pa se na kocki znajdeta še Davidova kariera in zakon.
Bean works as a caretaker at Britain's formidable Royal National Gallery, and his bosses want to fire him because he sleeps at work all the time, but can't because the chairman of the gallery's board defends him. They send him to USA, to the small Los Angeles art gallery instead, where he'll have to officiate at the opening of the greatest US picture ever (called "Whistler's Mother").
