Dirty Laundry
2006 · 100 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 547 VOTES · DIR. Maurice Jamal
Overview
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son up to see Sheldon. Sheldon comes home to straighten things out. Old arguments flare up - between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn's door, bringing a new set of challenges. Will this family ever stop airing its dirty laundry? And what of Sheldon: where is his pride? Can he, in the words of James Baldwin, go where his blood beats and live the life he has?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,829 lines
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00:00:02 [Helicopter Whirring]
00:06:31 - Come on, baby. - [Gabriel] Okay.
00:11:17 Your middle name might be Patrick, but you were born Sheldon.
00:15:21 Mm-hmm. And that's when Gabe came here to live with us.
00:20:29 - Mama, you all right? - I'm fine.
00:24:44 - Just playin' around. - [Chuckles]
00:29:00 Sopranos, you too. Lettuce, you was fabulous.
00:33:41 - You're not gonna say hi to your brother? - Nope.
00:37:16 - Eugene. - Good night, Mama. Good night. Come on. Go.
00:42:03 Pastor James, deacons, mothers...
00:46:10 - Who's Sheldon? Baby, you- - Uh-
00:50:16 See, that is your problem, Sheldon. Always sassin' and talkin' back.
00:54:13 - Excuse me. Excuse me. - Yes?
00:57:59 - But you said he's not your kid. - And he's not.
01:02:25 You know, look, Gabe...
01:06:46 Nosy heifer.
01:11:55 - Yeah. - Yeah. Don't start.
01:16:34 - Why not? - She wants us to stay here and be miserable like her.
01:21:10 - ¢Ü¢Ü[Ends] - [Shouting]
01:24:59 [All Gasping]
01:29:21 Those little trinkets will tell you things about them that you didn't know before.
01:33:55 Pass me some chicken, boy.
01:37:41 I didn't mean "shut up" shut up. I mean just shut up!
01:41:49 - You gonna come here and live with me? - Uh, no, no, no.