Mama has dinner every Sunday at her house and the whole family comes. It's her way of keeping the family together. After surgery, Mama slips into a coma, Sunday dinners stop and the family begins to fall apart. Vanessa Williams does an excellent job playing Terry, a high powered lawyer and the oldest of Mama's three daughters. This film has it all--love, violence, joy, sorrow, life and death.

From the visually impaired point of view, the movie is narrated through the eyes of Mama's ten-year-old grandson, beginning with him introducing his family to the audience. This has its good and bad points. The narration certainly gives us important information about the family, but the reporting is going on while some scenes are unfolding. Make the decision to listen to the narration here. If you try to absorb both the narration and the unfolding events, you might get overwhelmed and miss everything.

The first third of this movie is fast, chaotic and very difficult to figure who's who. There are twelve characters with important parts which adds to the confusion. The voices are not too distinct which makes it even tougher. But towards the middle of the flick things begin to fall into place. From this point on, the movie actually becomes very enjoyable, eventually concluding with a warm and tender ending.