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.