Amy Mitchell (Mila Kunis) is a married woman with two children, Jane (Oona Laurence) and Dylan (Emjay Anthony), who feels overworked and overcommitted. She works as a sales rep for a "hip" coffee company, prepares healthful, handpacked lunches for her children, does much of their homework, goes to all of their extracurricular activities, and is active in her school's PTA, run by the domineering Gwendolyn James (Christina Applegate) and her cronies, Stacy (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Vicky (Annie Mumolo). When she catches her husband Mike (David Walton) cheating on her with a dairy farmer via the internet, Amy throws him out and attempts to keep everything together.
After a particularly stressful day, Amy publicly quits the PTA in response to Gwendolyn's overzealous bake sale plans. At a nearby bar, Amy meets Carla (Kathryn Hahn), a laid back, sexually-active single mom, and Kiki (Kristen Bell) a stay-at-home mom of four who admires Amy's dissent from Gwendolyn. Amy and Carla are also irritated to discover that Kiki's husband is domineering and expects her to take care of all the kids and the house with no assistance whatsoever, while Amy and Kiki are disturbed at Carla's very hands-off approach to parenting. The trio embark on an all-night bender that inspires Amy to loosen up with her kids: she takes them for rides in Mike's classic car, gets them lunch from Arby's, takes days off work, forces Dylan to fend for himself, and takes Jane for a spa day.
Amy's actions draw the ire of Gwendolyn, who uses her PTA authority to get Jane removed from the soccer team. Amy is angered, and decides to run for PTA president in opposition to Gwendolyn. A meet-and-greet at Amy's home draws only one visitor, who informs them that Gwendolyn has launched a rival party at her own house, catered by Martha Stewart. In spite of this, the other moms, and Martha, swiftly abandon Gwendolyn's party when it becomes clear that she intends to lecture them all evening, leading to a successful booze-soaked house party at Amy's.
Gwendolyn responds by planting drugs in Jane's locker, getting her kicked out of all extracurricular activities on the same day that Amy gets fired. Jane and Dylan both go to stay with Mike (who has agreed to an amicable divorce) in response to what they see as Amy's failure as a mom. A despondent Amy stays home during the PTA election, but is roused to action by Carla and by Kiki, who finally stands up to her husband and orders him to deal with everything alone until the meeting is over. At the event, she gives an inspiring speech about how all the moms are overworked, and that they need to take time off, do fewer and less stressful events, and most importantly, allow themselves to make mistakes. Amy wins by a landslide, and eventually winds up comforting a devastated Gwendolyn, who reveals being in charge of the PTA was her only way to take out her anger at her husband's arrest for embezzling from a charity.
Some weeks later, Amy's approach has led to positive changes: Jane is stressing out less, Dylan is actually applying himself, and all of the moms, including Stacy and Vicky, are feeling more energized. Amy herself has gotten her job back with much better compensation, and continues to see Jessie (Jay Hernandez), a handsome widower she bonded with some weeks earlier. Gwendolyn has admitted that Amy's way has merit, and as the film closes, invites Amy, Carla and Kiki for a day of fun on her husband's private jet.
The ending credits play over the cast interviewing their real-life moms.
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