Lem's gonna be a daddy. Why didn't you tell me? We just having Sunday dinner. Like he knew that I knew that he knew that I knew. Hey, Lem, I can't believe you finished that Johnson job. I used to think we had a special connection. Bring my shorty up right.
Every Sunday she makes the family get together for dinner. Through the way they hung out, you can tell they were curious of each other…… and wanted to experience each other sexually. Didn't nobody ask you for your help! That's why I'm a successful lawyer. This is about your jealousy, Max. I guess I got caught.
One of the hottest sex scenes in the movie, even while drunk…. After all these years, you and Max are still together. Meanwhile, Lem cannot find a job due to his criminal record, so Bird makes an uneasy deal with her former boyfriend, Simuel St. Them daughters are looking good, too. This isn't the money from the will? I don't want to butt in.
Without the attentions of Mama Joe, the family slowly begins to come apart. You don't think she's too young for a computer? But, I see why Miles felt the need to cheat Faith made him feel alive, and was there. That's what those Sunday dinners meant. So, uh, what's up, Lem? In the television series, she is far more sedate in personality and a real mother hen to her family and got along better with Maxine. Though he doesn't hit her, he does push her a bit and she's visibly shaken afterwards. This family got to be that fist. The work of all the actors in these sequences--those playing the three couples, plus the two troublesome outsiders--is a reminder of how rich the African-American acting community has grown in recent years, with the renaissance in black-themed films.
If he feels you take that away from him, he has nothing. From the introduction of them as a couple, you can tell it's bound for disaster. It's what I wanna do. Young Ahmad takes it upon himself to try to bring them all back together. Terri was the only career woman in the family besides Bird opening a hair salon , who always bailed or help anyone in the family with money.
It's what she was trying to tell me before she died. The cast are all good, but the focus is definitely on the women and the three sisters in particular. Not bad for a black man in those days. One finger pointing the blame don't make no impact. Teri and Lem get better in the series, though. For everyone-- you and your family-- Fuck the family! The story is narrated by, and told through the eyes of, 11 year old Ahmad.
She and her three daughters prepare the meal. Lem gets upset that Bird would do this behind her back, especially since Simuel is her ex-boyfriend. So I told the man next to the goddamn man. I agree that this is a wonderful movie about family, but oddly, for such for a family film, it includes a couple of adult scenes as well as adult language. That's not to say all of the acting is terrible, though. I got some great news. You really wanna pursue your music full time, huh? I'm supposed to be happy! She is a successful woman, and she needs a successful man! Bird: You know what, Teri? Before Granddaddy died, he owned a barber shop.
It's all right for them to lie around, but let a man-- -A brother. The family fucked my husband. See what your daddy got? Everyone who was anyone was there. Teri's iciness pushes her husband, Miles Michael Beach , an aspiring musician, into the arms of her black-sheep cousin Faith Gina Ravera. The movie was a star studded cast and a box office hit.
She's the glue that holds them all together. He paid his debt to society. But we'd be more happy if we beat that ho' down. Fox Maxine , Michael Branch Miles , Mekhi Phifer Lem , Irma P. I didn't take care of you? Man, me and old Cola, we, uh, we go way back. Meanwhile, a misunderstanding between Bird and her ex-con husband Lem Mekhi Phifer sends him back to the slammer. That white man shit is old.
Yo, man, we'll find you something, all right? It started in the early eighties, before I was born. They'll help you up front. I spend, like, all of my days, baby Tryin' to sus out just how things got this way I thought that we were in love But I swear right now, I don't know what you want I make sure that I give you quality time But lately I feel you're not home by design But still I'm gonna try To give you the love of my life In hopes that you That you will open up your eyes, baby Girl, I care about you I'm there for you So why don't you care for me Like I care about you? I'm moving out this weekend. Even Maxine grimaces at how harsh it is. It's got a color monitor. Lem cannot find a job, and eventually becomes enraged with his wife Bird when he finds out how she got him a job.