The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Maurice JamalDirector
- Maurice JamalWriter
Cast
- Rockmond DunbarPatrick / Sheldon
- Loretta DevineEvelyn
- Jenifer LewisAunt Lettuce
- Terri J. VaughnJackie
- Maurice JamalEugene
- SommoreAbby
- Joey CostelloRyan
- Aaron Grady ShawGabriel
- Rainey MatthewsPudge
- Bobby 'Slim' JonesPastor James
- Gregory Alan WilliamsPercy
- Alec MapaDaniel