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Dwayne speaking in ebonics cracks me up!


http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0162903/

DLF does a great job at summarizing this movie, so I won't even bother. Go read.

What I took from this movie was all the relationship challenges that they faced. The adoptive mother vs. the birth mother. The adoptive couple on their own. The birth mother and the daugther. The roommate and his new 'girlfriend'. The newly engaged couple. The birth mother and the son. The adoptive parents and the son in law vs. the birth mother and the son in law.

Through all this, the ways they interact with each other is out of the love that they share in the place that they are. All, of course, except for the adoptive parents and the birth mother.

I didn't want to watch this movie. I hated the hook that they used on Starz to preview it. Eventually I was channel surfing one afternoon when I stop because on the screen this cat looks up from it's food bowl and says 'Oh Pleeeaaassseeee! You're short, man!'

I was hooked. I had to find out what else this cat was going to say, but then the movie moved back into the main plot and I just took it in. I saw the adoptive mother as my mother in law and the birth mother as my mother. This movie just grabbed me because my mother is just like the birth mother and my mother in law is exactly like the adoptive mother. They too had to work out their differences and connect because they loved me as you see in the film at the end.

Has anyone else taken the time to watch this yet? :)

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This is one of my favorites. I watch it every time that it comes on any of the cable stations. I too, like the fact that they deal with gender issues, mothering issues without overplaying the ethnic issues.

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