Dirty Laundry
Comedy, Drama
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2006
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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?
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
100 min
Release date:
15 Jul 2006
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 nomination.
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Cheesy crockpot of a film.
– Julia Wallace,
L.A. Weekly,
6 Dec 2007
rotten:
Overwritten and under-directed by Maurice Jamal, the movie contains several honest moments but remains too awash in clichA (C)s and stereotypes to take seriously.
– Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec 2007
fresh:
Mr. Jamal's direction ranges from clumsy to competent. Fortunately, even as Mr. Jamal's characters hit notes reminiscent of a half-baked television pilot, they disclose eccentricities that his cast spins into comic gold.
– Matt Zoller Seitz,
New York Times,
7 Dec 2007
fresh:
Looking for plot holes? You can't miss them. But if you go in hoping for a good time, you'll find that, too.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
7 Dec 2007
rotten:
The tone is good-natured enough to make a simple movie semi-watchable.
– Kyle Smith,
New York Post,
7 Dec 2007