Dirty Laundry
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  • Summary: Dirty Laundry is a serious comedy about family drama. A modern-day prodigal son story with a twist, the film follows a traditional southern family dealing with the return of the prodigal son Patrick, a successful Manhattan writer who suddenly left home and never looked back. After 10 years, Patrick has returned to discover a secret that could rock his seemingly "perfect" world. In the center of the conflict is his hard-edged mother Evelyn, whose own story holds as much drama and secrecy as her son's. (Codeblack Entertainment)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 8
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    63
    Looking for plot holes? You can't miss them. But if you go in hoping for a good time, you'll find that, too.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    60
    Taking control of what would otherwise be a trite and preachy fable about the need for African American families to accept their gay brethren, Devine builds a jolly and touching character from the stock figure of a Georgia mom coming to terms with her disaffected gay son.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    50
    The tone is good-natured enough to make a simple movie semi-watchable.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    50
    A comedy-drama with alarming similarities to a relic from 1976, "Norman, Is That You?" In that film, Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey were parents shocked to discover that their son was gay and living with a white lover. That's basically the same gimmick in this new film from writer-director Maurice Jamal.

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