Rotten
The tone is good-natured enough to make a simple movie semi-watchable.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Overview
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son up to see Sheldon. Sheldon comes home to straighten things out. Old arguments flare up - between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn's door, bringing a new set of challenges. Will this family ever stop airing its dirty laundry? And what of Sheldon: where is his pride? Can he, in the words of James Baldwin, go where his blood beats and live the life he has?
Director and cast
- Maurice Jamal Director
- Rockmond Dunbar as Patrick / Sheldon
- Loretta Devine as Evelyn
- Jenifer Lewis as Aunt Lettuce
- Terri J. Vaughn as Jackie
- Maurice Jamal as Eugene
- Sommore as Abby
- Joey Costello as Ryan
- Aaron Grady Shaw as Gabriel (as Aaron Shaw)
- Rainey Matthews as Pudge
- Bobby 'Slim' Jones as Pastor James (as Dr. Bobby Jones)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Looking for plot holes? You can't miss them. But if you go in hoping for a good time, you'll find that, too.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Fresh
Mr. Jamal's direction ranges from clumsy to competent. Fortunately, even as Mr. Jamal's characters hit notes reminiscent of a half-baked television pilot, they disclose eccentricities that his cast spins into comic gold.
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
Rotten
Overwritten and under-directed by Maurice Jamal, the movie contains several honest moments but remains too awash in clichA (C)s and stereotypes to take seriously.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Cheesy crockpot of a film.
Julia Wallace, L.A. Weekly
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