This film from director Millicent Shelton ('30 Rock', 'Black-ish') follows a family fighting bigotry, violence and more on their road trip.
some potential early on is its setup: Brenda is a recently widowed mother who can no longer afford life in Los Angeles. So she packs up the minivan with her two kids, Kelly and Cam , and her pothead younger brother, Reggie , to move to her mother’s place in Houston.
If you look on a map, you’ll see that such a drive will take Brenda and her family through plenty of desert and at least one state that voted red in the last presidential election. Shelton and writers Christopher Moore and David Loughery milk that premise for all it’s worth — perhaps never better than in an early scene where Brenda faces off, and wisely stands down, against a pair of honky-tonk racists who try to block her path.
With Latifah and Bridges at the wheel much of this could have been played for laughs, upending a boilerplate scenario in a clever, Jordan Peele kind of way while mocking all the southern bigotry. Instead, the filmmakers try to inject pathos into a formula that probably could’ve used much less of it.
Like the writing, the directing is serviceable, with the leads doing their best with what feels like subpar material. The action sequences tend to lack verve and the locations — a roadside motel, a diner, a trailer park, a creepy country home with a dungeon — seem to have been chosen from a B-movie rolodex. Scoring is omnipresent but fails to bring additional thrills. is unwatchable, and if you’re looking for something quick and easy with some expected twists, it serves its purpose.
Cast: Queen Latifah, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Beau Bridges, Mychale Faith Lee, Shaun Dixon, Frances Lee McCainProducers: Tracey E. Edmonds, Mark Burg, Brad KaplanDirector of photography: Ed Wu
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