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Day Late and A Dollar Short (2014 telefilm/Lionsgate DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: C Extras: D Film: B+
Viola
Price (Whoopi Goldberg) learns she is dieing, but before she kicks
the bucket she wants to patch things up between the members of Price
Family. The Price Family isn't what you would call close, everyone
has their secrets and between all the lies and false smiles, they
can't be together for less than 5 minutes without fighting each
other, much less sit down at the diner table, but Viola is determined
fix her broken family ...even if it kills her.
In
Stephen Tolkin's A Day Late and A Dollar Short (2014), Viola
is the matriarch of the Price Family, headstrong and stubborn, she is
determined to help her family. Viola finds her all her family
members been hiding something, her husband is cheating on her, her 3
daughters and son are in broken marriages, her grand kids are doing
drugs and one of them is getting raped by her own father. They are
all too prideful to admit they have been neglecting their own family,
and too competitive with each other to admit they were wrong, but
with the love of their mother, can they come to terms with themselves
and be able to save their family before it is too late?
Whoopi
Goldberg does a masterful performance of playing a dieing caring
mother who is trying to teach her family life is more than about
being successful about money. The only thing worry about is the
subject content of some of the family issues, and would not recommend
it for kids. This also has a fine cast including Ving Rhames,
Kimberly Elise, Mekhi Phifer and Anika Noni Rose. The
anamorphically-enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is good, but the lossy Dolby
Digital sound is on the dialogue-based side, so expect only so much.
There
are no extras.
-
Ricky Chiang
