Following his parents' divorce, Jake Olver chooses to move with his father to a remote part of Connecticut and into the house of his late Uncle Horace, a crackpot who believed that Big Foot lived in the woods, but soon odd things begin to happen and Jake, along with his pretty co-worker from the local market, Nell Davis, try to make a name for themselves by proving that the mythical Sasquatch is alive and well and living in the woods behind his house.