This movie had everything. Bottles against heads. Loan sharks. Gun threats. Spousal abuse. Jail. Baby oil. A secret White woman. This starts at a club in Chicago and after this dude Quentin finishes playing saxophone he smacks a dude over the head with a bottle and runs away. It was pretty intense. Back in LA the mother of this family, Shirley, wants all her kids together for the holiday. She is dating a guy named Joe after her husband left the family years ago to play music. The oldest is Quentin who bottles people and runs. He ain't been around for four years. Lisa who is a housewife, mother, helping run the mom's laundry business, and has a cheating ass husband. Kelli is visiting from New York. She ain't interesting. Claude is a Marine with a secret White woman. Mel is a college student with a boyfriend. Also not interesting. And finally Baby who wants to be a photographer and secret musician. See, Shirley hates music since her husband left to play music. Think that is everyone. Oh, and Joe is a deacon and dating Shirley.
Soon as everyone is together Lisa says they should sale their shares of the laundry business and put their mom in another home. Mom ain't like sick and dying or anything. Lisa's husband just wants the money from it. Quentin shows up out of nowhere and mom is happy he is home. He lies about touring and don't even have no damn luggage. Quentin hates Joe and doesn't want him in the home. Claude wants to see his lady at the club and his entire family invites themselves. He sees his lady and two guys are flirting with her. Baby shows up on stage and sings and they are all shocked since music is banned in the home the same way dancing was in Footloose. Claude sent his woman away from the club and those two guys that were hitting on her say some sexist/racist shit and Claude pulls a gun on them. The family retreats and heads home promising to not talk about this. Yeah. Sure.
The sister Kelli slept with this dude that she met at the club the previous night. Malcolm says he needs to go on a work trip and leaves Lisa behind. Yeah. He super cheating. Later Lisa comes home and the guys that Quentin were running from show up. She like “I saw them driving up and down the street looking for you so I brought them here!” I was like, ma'am, you being super dumb right now. The guys named Dude and Mo rough Quentin up but he says the police are right there. He wasn't lying. They come for Claude not only because he pulled a gun in the club but because his ass is AWOL. Like, these are the kinda kids Shirley has raised. The family finally meets Claude's wife. Her name is Sandi, she is White, and her family is racist. So...yeah. Oh, and she pregnant. Quentin realizes that Joe and his mama Shirley are very much together and gets upset. Sir! You ain't even seen your mother is four years and only came because you running from goons who are now staying for dinner and sleeping over. Quentin didn't even know his parents divorced! By the way, L. pointed out that this is the biggest house with minimum nine rooms.
Lisa admits to Kelli that she knows that Malcolm is cheating on her but thinks she is too old to be dating again. Look at who plays Lisa and tell me she would have a single moment finding another man. They get into a wet brawl and Lisa takes Malcolm's prized car and dumps it over a ravine. When Malcolm gets back home Lisa pretends they are gonna bone down. When he gets out the shower he slips on baby oil she dumped on the floor and whips him with a belt. It was pretty honked up. Baby tells his mother he sings. She acts like he admitted to doing crack in the back of church every week. Quentin has left because he hates Joe. At the train station Mo and Dude jump his ass and Joe comes to the rescue. Everyone knew where Quentin was because LA is a very small town and Joe gives them half the money owed and takes their gun and sends them on their way. At church Baby sings to everyone, Claude is released from prison I think just to say goodbye, Quentin sticks around and is cool with Joe now, and Lisa files from divorce from her cheating ass husband. This movie had either far too much drama on some and other people like two of the sisters had close to no story going on and didn't really need to be in this.
Loretta Devine as Shirley Ann “Ma'Dere” Whitfield
Delroy Lindo as Joe Black
Idris Elba as Quentin Whitfield, Jr.
Regina King as Lisa Whitfield-Moore
Sharon Leal as Kelli Whitfield
Columbus Short as Claude Whitfield
Lauren London as Melanie Whitfield
Chris Brown as Michael “Baby” Whitfield
Laz Alonso as Malcolm Moore
Ricky Harris as Cousin Fred Whitfield
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