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?
Directed by Maurice Jamal
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Cast
Rockmond Dunbar
Patrick / Sheldon
Loretta Devine
Evelyn
Jenifer Lewis
Aunt Lettuce
Terri J. Vaughn
Jackie
Maurice Jamal
Eugene
Sommore
Abby
Joey Costello
Ryan
Aaron Grady Shaw
Gabriel
Rainey Matthews
Pudge
Bobby 'Slim' Jones
Pastor James
Gregory Alan Williams
Percy
Alec Mapa
Daniel
Veronica Webb
Susan
Erica Faye Watson
Clarine
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