Dirty Laundry Page #2

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?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Maurice Jamal
Production: BiggerEpic
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
2006
100 min
Website
261 Views


You should talk to her.

Please?

Oh. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa.

Whoa.

Uh, departures. No, no, no.

Operator. Operator.

[Footsteps Approaching]

An old man in a taxicab

dropped this off.

Oh. [Chuckles]

Yeah, Percy.

Light on the starch,

heavy on the perfume.

Just put it down over there.

Uh-

[Sighs]

You know, you work too hard.

Ain't nothing wrong with hard work.

Gotta pay the bills somehow.

You know, and that smoking

is really not good for you.

Mm-hmm.

Can we talk?

Yeah. Let's talk.

Whew. Jesus.

Sheldon, not in my house.

Okay. Mama, can you please

just call me Patrick?

Your name is Sheldon.

Your middle name might be Patrick,

but you were born Sheldon.

That's your father's name.

That's your name. Sheldon.

Okay, okay. Why don't we just go ahead

and skip the whole name thing...

and just take it step by step?

All right.

Let's get to steppin'.

- Tell me about Gabriel.

- Ain't nothing to tell.

That's your son.

You're his daddy.

Mama, don't you think

that I would know that?

The boy is 10 years old.

Now, 10 years ago, you must have

done something with somebody.

[Chuckling]

Christine.

That name ring a bell?

Christine? No, I don't

know any Christine.

Christine?

She was always coming around

here lookin' for you.

Fat girl,

standing at the backdoor...

always looking for a snack.

Oh. Yeah.

You're talking about Cookie.

Yeah. Cookie.

Oh, my God.

Oh. Cookie?

Yeah. Cookie.

Ow.

- You okay?

- No.

You need some water

or some lemonade?

Oh, he don't need no lemonade.

[Grunts]

- My chest is tight.

- I guess this qualifies as a special occasion.

There you go.

Ah! Ugh!

Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Let me get this straight.

- Gabriel-

- That's your son.

- And I'm-

- Big daddy.

Big daddy. Oh.

Well, what happened to his mother?

- Phew!

- [Jackie] Well-

Well, where is she?

Where's Cookie?

Well, that's- that's kind

of a hard story, Sheldon.

- Damn shame.

- Well, what happened?

Well, I'm gonna let

Jackie tell that story.

Okay. Well, um,

it all started about...

two or three years

after you left town.

That poor Cookie,

she was a goddamn mess.

I mean, she was just all

destroyed after you left.

She cryin'all the time,

yellin' out your name.

We didn't even know

about Gabe at that point.

Okay. All right.

So what-what happened?

Well, you know, she tried

to get her life on track.

She was still a big girl.

- Big?

- Ooh, real big.

- Big?

- All right, real big.

She joined up with

a big-girl stripper troupe.

They would travel around

the lodges and restaurants and bars...

fat-boy bachelor parties-

any place where men wanted

to see big booties in G-strings.

Now, personally,

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