Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3/4
Geart holiday family film.
filmfan09 - wrote on 01/10/2009
This movie was EXCELLENT! The script was well written, the acting was SUPERB, and nothing was left out of this movie, which everyone, irrespective of race, can identify with in some way.
The film is about the Whitfield family that reunites for Christmas for the first time in seveal years. Ma' Dere (Loretta Devine) is the Matriarch of the family. Michael (Chris Brown), an aspiring singer who hides his talents from his mother because she hasn’t gotten over her long-gone musician husband. Oldest son Quentin (Idris Elba), a jazz saxophonist who shows up after four years' absence, projects his anger at Ma' Dere onto her longtime boyfriend (Delroy Lindo), and the reunion reignites the competition between married eldest daughter Lisa (Regina King) and jet-setting model/actress Kelli …
