Dirty Laundry

Dirty Laundry
by Maurice Jamal

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Actor: Alec Mapa, Greg Alan Williams, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine, Veronica Webb
Director: Maurice Jamal
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Rory King
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of Dirty Laundry

DVD Review: MOVIE WAS GREAT, BUT!!!!!!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars

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.

DVD Review: Good Clean Family Fun!! Hillariously Funny!! But Also Heartwarming!!
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

DVD Review: Dirty Laundry
Summary: 5 Stars

I enjoyed Ms. Devine as always and the mystery involved in decovering thst her son was gay. The gay boyfriend played a great role as well.

DVD 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.

DVD Review: Dirty Laundry - Great Fun!
Summary: 5 Stars

Dirty Laundry has a somewhat slow / questionable start, however, after the movie gets going it is hillariously funny and entertaining. It is the type of movie that will make you laugh out loud over and over again. It is great fun for family or a group of friends looking to enjoy a good funny movie together. I have shown this movie to several groups of friends and family and they all loved it. Definitely worth renting or purchasing.

Description of Dirty Laundry

Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 01/06/2009 Run time: 107 minutes Rating: Pg13

When Sheldon (Rockmond Dunbar, Soul Food) comes back to the small Georgia town he left ten years before, he discovers he has a son--and a whole lot of unresolved family secrets. Dirty Laundry follows Sheldon as he struggles to sort out his relationship with his domineering mother (Loretta Devine, Kingdom Come), his jealous brother (Maurice Jamal, who also wrote and directed), his snooty aunt (Jenifer Lewis, The Cookout), and his naive lover Ryan (newcomer Joey Costello), who follows Sheldon from New York. Dirty Laundry plays like a remake of Sordid Lives as it might be directed by Tyler Perry. Southern caricatures abound, everyone's feuding with everyone else, gossip and good Christian values go hand in hand, and every church service features a dancing gospel choir. The characters are enjoyable and individual scenes play well, though the overall plot doesn't amount to much. Devine storms through the movie like a force of nature, Lewis musters her highest dudgeon, and Dunbar manages to be prickly but genial at the same time, which is no simple trick. A warm, friendly, dysfunctional family romp. --Bret Fetzer

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