Dirty Laundry
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Movie Reviews of Dirty Laundry
Movie Review: Cute and Endearing
Summary: 4 Stars
Being a fan of Rockmond Dunbar and Loretta Devine, I made it a point of seeing this movie in its theatrical release. And I also knew it would become a part of my DVD collection. It's not the best out there but it's entertaining, cute and endearing. Rockmond Dunbar is to be applauded for his courage as an American black actor willing to take on these kinds of roles. He did a good job.Movie Review: Full of Life Lessons
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this movie and loved it! It was full of life lessons and filled with many surprises. And talk about funny? It was small town comedy at its best. It is a definate watch.Movie Review: Funny!
Summary: 4 Stars
This one was a little bit of a surprse to me. Loved the story line and also had a little bit of a tug at the old heart strings.Movie Review: Coming Home and Facing Truths in a Laugh-Fueled, Southern-Fried Family Dramedy
Summary: 3 Stars
I got the chance to see a rough cut of writer/director/actor Maurice Jamal's film last year during the 2006 San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. As an openly gay black man, he lends a particularly unique and contemporary perspective on the Prodigal Son parable with this tale of a class-conscious New York-based magazine writer whose discovery of a ten-year old son leads him back to the family he left behind years ago in his hometown of Paris, Georgia. Those who have seen Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown or Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy will recognize the fish-out-of-water comedy that dominates the movie's first half. However, the movie gradually congeals into a more resonant drama of acceptance and forgiveness.
Despite his bare-bones production budget and a sometimes too facile approach to easy laughs, Jamal has a keen eye for his Deep South setting and especially his characters that manage to sidestep stereotypical treatment. What I particularly like about the family interactions is how Jamal chooses to emphasize the son's elitism that has alienated the family, not as much his sexual orientation. Rockmond Dunbar brings a sympathetic core to the uptight son, Patrick in his current life but Sheldon to his family. However, it's Loretta Devine who shines as his mother Evelyn, a hardened, alcoholic washerwoman who holds her own secrets and rails against her son with fervor. She seizes a great moment as she delivers a near-soliloquy at the dinner table near the end. With her foghorn, female-impersonator delivery, veteran scene-stealer Jenifer Lewis plays judgmental Aunt Lettuce with her usual gusto and provides the film's biggest laughs.
Most of the cast is amusingly over-the-top - Terri J. Vaughn's supportive sister Jackie, Filipino comedian Alec Mapa as the overzealous metrosexual friend, Sommore's throaty turn as the sassy daughter-in-law, and Jamal's own performance as Sheldon's straight, dim-bulb brother who runs the local butcher shop. The one major fly in the ointment is Joey Costello, who comes across far too flighty and naïve as Patrick's partner Ryan. The film has a too-pat though forgivable ending, but Jamal shows himself to be a most idiosyncratic comedy talent.
Movie Review: SECRETS AND LIES
Summary: 3 Stars
THE FILM DIRTY LAUNDRY, CHRONICLES A GAY NEW YORK MAGAZINE WRITER WHO HAS ESCAPED HIS SOUTHERN HOMETOWN, AS WELL AS HIS FAMILY'S JUDGEMENT. THAT IS , UNTIL HIS ILEGITIMATE SON KNOCKS ON HIS DOOR AND SPURS AN UNFORSEEN TRIP BACK HOME. THE PROTAGONIST, PLAYED BY ROCKMOND DUNBAR, IS SURROUNDED BY A PHOTOGENIC AND OFTERN COMEDIC CAST THAT INCLUDES LORETTA DEVINE, JENIFER LEWIS AND GOSPEL LEGENF BOBBY JONES.