The young Jerry O'Connell, Devoreaux White and Sarah Jessica Parker all have small supporting roles.
In order to save money, maintaining her inheritance, she lets rooms to a variety of tenants while she sleeps in her parents' parlour.
A cellist named Travis Coles (Sam Waterston) visits to inquire about the upstairs room to let.
Leah's head teacher (Linda Hunt) assigns her to look after an unruly illiterate teenage girl named Susan (Renée Estevez), who refuses to attend school.
While Travis is on a concert tour in Canada, Leah's tenant Mandy (Sarah Jessica Parker) gives birth to a baby.
Leah's brother Frank (James Handy) is angry with her because the house is returning a puny profit although she's now also her tenant Mandy's babysitter.