Not that Great!
Added 10/30/2009
A friend of mine recommended this movie to me.
Once I purchased it, I was not to impressed.
I am not discriminatory against gays at all. But I would not buy a movie like this.
If the gay stuff wasn't in it, I may have enjoyed it.
I will not recommend this movie to anyone.
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I was very happy with this purchase. I received it earlier that I suspected in good condition.
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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.
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MOVIE WAS GREAT, BUT!!!!!!!!!!
Added 4/15/2009
I ENJOYED THE MOVIE, BUT THERE IS A FLAW IN THE DISC. THE MOVIE WILL NOT START UNTIL YOU PLAY WITH IT FOR AWHILE. ALSO NEAR THE END IT WILL STOP AND DO A FREEZE FRAME. THIS THE FIRST MOVIE I'VE RECEIVED LIKE THIS, BUT I'M GOING TO LIVE WITH IT, NOT WORTH THE HASSLE OF RETURNING IT.
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Good Clean Family Fun!! Hillariously Funny!! But Also Heartwarming!!
Added 4/7/2009
This is a very funny movie that gets even funnier as it progresses!! Hold onto your sides, as you'll be laughing non-stop!!! Sports an elite all-star cast.
Magazine writer Patrick Sheldon (Rockmond Dumbar) who is gay, is a very successful businessman, lives in the Big Apple, has a very high-paying job, a luxurious penthouse-style apt and a very caring and loving boyfriend, just couln't ask for anything more or less.
That is until one evening during a party, a little boy named Gabriel (played by Aaron Grady Shaw from the HBO series In Treatment) shows up uannounced, knocks on his door, introduses himself and then tells Patrick that he's his son. The rug is snatched out from under him.
In an effort to get to the root of this surprise visit by Gabriel, Patrick
then takes the boy back with him back to his hometown of Paris, Georgia where he tries to unravel the mystery to find out just how he happens to suddenly have a child. Once there, he finds out that two worlds seem to collide with each other, as one shocking revelation after another is revealed!
Patrick who is often refered to as his birth name of Sheldon, he steadfastly and sternly demands to be called Patrick, visits and stays with his mom (Loretta Devine) while trying to find out just how Gabriel is his child. It appears that 10 years ago according to his mom (that's how long Patrick was in New York), Patrick had an affair with a promiscuous overweight girl, Christine, who is now deceased and that's how Gabriel came into existence.
While there, his partner / boyfriend Ryan (played by newcomer Joey Costello) happens to show up from New York unannounced (Baby, what's going on here?).(Mom: Baby?!! Baby?!!!) Well, the mud hits the fan when Pat's mom learns the real truth about her son being gay! She goes bonkers wondering why and where did she fail him, acting like she just wants to knock him out!
Enter Patrick's brother Eugine (played by Maurice Jamal who also wrote, produced and directed the film), who is insanely jealous of Patrick, stereotypes and puts him down constantly, mainly because of his sexual preference. But he openly wishes that he had Patrick's son. He and his wife have been trying to have a child, but they can't. Patrick also has a nosey snobbish snotty-nosed self-centered aunt (Jennifer Lewis from Cookout)) who just can't seem to stop poking her nose in the family's pesonal affairs and is always stirring up trouble and controversy!
Patrick also has an overweight smirky-comment-spewing 11-year-old cousin, Pudge who doesn't let Patrick get a word in edgewise and flatly insists that she has to get up and pratice very early in the morning for her dancing lessons, playing outlandishly loud music and making Patrick's sleeping late impossible. Ryan later has a conversation with her while Patrick's mom eavesdrops. She begins to slowly rethink things about her son.
When he was a little boy, Patrick used to keep a diary that he read by the lake, which his brother Eugene uased to ridicule & embarass him about, and his mother use to yell at and scold him about back then and snatched it from him and keeps it hidden from him and reads it herself now and then. Gabriel has started doing the same thing.
At church and at a cookout, even more shocking secrets are reveled as Patrick and his lover accidentally reveal their love affair over the PA system! The crowd gasps in horror and the aunt faints ("Oh Lord! Gay! I knew about it, but not in my family. Not in my family. Homosexual).
Meanwhile, Patrick and Gabriel try to work out their arguments and diffences. Gabriel overhears a very disturbing argument between Patrick and his mom, and becomes very upset with his dad, giving him the cold shoulder and tuning him out of his life! But later, they both come to terms with the fact that they still love and want to be with each other. Touching! Patrick eventually accepts Gabriel has his child, and the two are now getting along together and are inseparable.
Then, just when one would think that all of the dirty laundry has been washed and hung out to dry, Patrick's aunt who sits down with the family for a Sunday Dinner, drops another bombshell and opens up another can of worms and then the family is fighting all over again, as personal insults begin to fly across the room!! Mom is a heavy smoker and an alcoholic, as she likes to smoke, drink and get drunk. Patrick and Ryan announce that they, along with Gabriel, are moving out and into their own apt. Mom then accepts Patrick and his lover as part of the family.
The whole family them comes together and buries the hatchett. A very happy ending.
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Not that Great!
Added 10/30/2009
A friend of mine recommended this movie to me.
Once I purchased it, I was not to impressed.
I am not discriminatory against gays at all. But I would not buy a movie like this.
If the gay stuff wasn't in it, I may have enjoyed it.
I will not recommend this movie to anyone.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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I was very happy with this purchase. I received it earlier that I suspected in good condition.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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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.
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