Tim Brown (Hill Harper) lives in the projects of Philadelphia and is getting ready to open his own laundromat with a combination of used washers and dryers. He has a daughter Maya (Troi Zee) who is light years in intellect beyond her parents. Shenae (Sharon Leal) is the wife who completes the family. When drug pusher Alonzo (Wayne Brady) gets out of jail, he pays a visit to Shenae, a former client and girlfriend. Shenae becomes hooked and disrupts everyone's life.
The film doesn't really have a great story with a twist and a marvelous happy ending...neither does Old Yeller die. It is inspired by a true story and is simply a story about life. The question is why this film and why now? Currently white suburbia has a problem with heroin addiction. There is an outcry to do something, something that didn't happen in 1982 when it was primarily in poor urban neighborhoods.
I would have liked to have see some statistics about heroin use then and now at the end of the feature to bring the film into prospective. There was none. It allows the viewers to come to their own conclusions concerning race and how issues are addressed. The acting was fairly decent. The dialogue was boring as in real life.
Guide: F-word, brief implied sex. no nudity.
The film doesn't really have a great story with a twist and a marvelous happy ending...neither does Old Yeller die. It is inspired by a true story and is simply a story about life. The question is why this film and why now? Currently white suburbia has a problem with heroin addiction. There is an outcry to do something, something that didn't happen in 1982 when it was primarily in poor urban neighborhoods.
I would have liked to have see some statistics about heroin use then and now at the end of the feature to bring the film into prospective. There was none. It allows the viewers to come to their own conclusions concerning race and how issues are addressed. The acting was fairly decent. The dialogue was boring as in real life.
Guide: F-word, brief implied sex. no nudity.