- Studio: Warner Home Video
- Release Date: Feb 2, 2007
- Starring: Billy Dee Williams, Gabrielle Union, Zoe Saldana
- Summary: This story chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep south as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial affair. (Freestyle Releasing)
- Director: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
- Genre(s): Drama
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60The central story, in which Helms has to make up his mind whether to attend his sister's funeral, is too limited a conflict to hang a movie on. Ultimately, audiences will have to satisfy themselves with the collective presence of these actors and the movie's obviously good-hearted intentions.
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60Exceptionally strong cast is pictures beating heart.
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50Writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman can't adequately handle either of his tasks: The script is as sappy as the direction is awkward. Fortunately, he was smart enough to enlist a cast of pros who can ably sidestep the project's many potholes.
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0Williams appears to be having trouble keeping his eyes open, and the audience will, too.
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