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Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

  • Starring: Jada Pinkett Smith, LL Cool J
  • Summary: The best and the worst of the Slocumb family are on display when Woodrow "Bud" Slocumb keels over from a stroke. As the town swelters in the summer heat, family tensions reach a comedic boil as the Slocumb clan comes together to remember their dearly departed. (Fox Searchlight)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 26
  2. Negative: 2 out of 26
  1. This joyous film, which confronts pain, loss and transgression with love, wisdom and forgiveness amid inspired humor, has it all.
  2. You're hard-pressed to dislike the film.
  3. You are left with the feeling that its excesses notwithstanding, it knows its chosen terrain.
  4. The characters are tired stereotypes, the sentimentality nauseating and the situation comedy way below the standards of the very worst WB or UPN shows.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4

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