Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Successful talk show host Martin Lawrence travels to Georgia with his Survivor-winning fiancé Joy Bryant and his ten year old son for his parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary. Once they arrive, it becomes understandable why Martin generally does not visit home as most of his family treats him horribly. That is the way with a lot of families but here it’s played for not really funny laughs. His relationship with his parents, James Earl Jones and Margaret Avery, could have been a good exploration on how people are sometimes too tough on the ones they love, but it barely touches the surface and just makes Jones mean and unpleasant. Showing that he learned from the best, Lawrence turns on his ambitious girlfriend and only has eyes for a high school sweetheart. I liked Michael Clarke Duncan as Martin’s brother, but his family is fat shamed at every possible chance.