 Mr. Bean is an eccentric caretaker working for the British national gallery in London, England, Mr. Bean is going to get fired by the museum s board of directors because he doesn t do his job and all he does is sleep. But the board instead decides to send Mr. Bean to Los Angeles, where David Langley, curator of a museum in downtown L.A. has requested that the board of director s of the British national gallery sends a art scholar to talk about their latest purchase, the famous painting "Whristler s Mother" which military officer General Newton has donated to the museum, at a opening conference. But Mr. Bean s arrival in Los Angeles causes mayhem, as David invites Mr. Bean to stay with his family and begins causing problems for David s marriage. But Mr. Bean doesn t know anything about paintings and although they think he is a brilliant, eccentric art scholar, he really isn t the right man to protect the painting as his behavior also threatens the painting itself.