Two wild and rebellious teenagers in love find that their eager wedding plans are being complicated by family members and roughneck gangsters.

A 17-year-old high-school senior marries a 20-something law student who works as a waiter. Who said marriage was bliss?

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him...