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April's live-in boyfriend, Bobby (DEREK LUKE), thinks it's a great idea and asks her if she needs help preparing the feast. She says no and he heads off to meet an associate, Latrell (SISQO), for some initially undisclosed reason.
It's only then that April discovers that their oven no longer works. Frantic to get the turkey cooked, she visits various neighbors including Wayne (SEAN HAYES), an oddball type with a new oven, and Eugene (ISIAH WHITLOCK, JR.) and Evette (LILLIAS WHITE) who help her out, but can only give her bird half the time it needs.
With her family en route with Grandma Dottie (ALICE DRUMMOND), and everyone trying to cope with Joy's terminal illness, April races to get everything ready before they arrive.
Tense family material includes the family reacting to the mother's terminal illness as well as them traveling to see the estranged daughter (with talk of familial relationship problems in the past and present).
That cancer patient smokes marijuana (presumably medicinal and is twice heard vomiting) and some other drug references are made. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, including some thugs who apparently beat up and rob a character.
Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.
For those prone to motion-induced sickness, various parts of the film (apparently shot with a handheld camera) are very jumpy and move around a lot.
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(2003) (Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson) (PG-13)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Heavy
Minor
Moderate
Minor
None
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
None
None
None
Heavy
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Heavy
*None
Heavy
Heavy
Mild
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Reviewed September 19, 2003 / Posted October 24, 2003
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