Kimberly Elise is essentially playing her character from Diary of a Mad Black Woman. But when you’re watching you notice something – the actors are just playing versions of themselves from previous roles. Throughout most of the movie, you end up feeling for her the most. She’s always had a great sense of comedic timing and facial expressions along with somehow not aging and constantly playing women younger than her. Gabrielle Union I think really holds this movie together on the adult acting side. He does a well enough job showing how much this man misses his wife and the exasperation of how his grown children act toward each other. He feels like he’s a granddad more than a father. Danny Glover actually feels older on screen than what he might be or the character he is playing. Lonnie is thirsty for a girl who works at piggly wiggly played by Keri Hilson, and Mo ‘Nique is just ab-libing her whole role on screen during this movie. So after that plot recap, Cheryl and Rachel don’t get along. Last is Evan, played by Jessie Usher is a college football star who’s coming off of an injury. Gabrielle Union plays Rachel, who’s going through some hard times as she studies to be a lawyer and raise her daughter Niya. He brings with him his wife Sonya (Nicole Ari Parker) and their two children. Romney Malco plays Christian, the eldest son who’s running for state senator. Smooth), a former pro basketball player with a wandering eye. Kimberly Elise plays Cheryl, the eldest daughter who’s married to Lonnie (J.B. To help him he has his sister in law, May (Mo’ Nique). Now this year he hopes he can bring his children together to spend their first Christmas without their mother in a happy and peaceful way. Every year he looked forward to having his entire family come home to spend the holidays with him and his wife. It’s a middle of road holiday weekend movie but maybe not one to run out to go see.Īlmost Christmas is about Walter (Danny Glover), he’s an old man who lost his wife almost a year ago. Some of you may ask what that means, put simply it means that it’s good enough that most black folks will see this in a barbershop or from their uncle with the movies to watch on Thanksgiving day or Christmas. ![]() So where does Almost Christmas sit? It’s a future hood bootleg classic. Sometimes these are pretty decent film going affairs like This Christmas, sometimes it’s pretty terrible like Black Nativity. This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk CriticsĪnother year and another black led holiday film.
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