Jumping The Broom doesn’t deviate from the formula for most movies about a young couple getting married: A seemingly happy occasion is put at risk by family tension and unresolved resentments, usually culminating in shattering revelations. But the uncovering of one family’s secrets will put the entire weekend in jeopardy.
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Unfortunately, in the days leading up to the ceremony it’s clear that Jason’s sassy, working-class mother Pam (Loretta Devine) doesn’t like Sabrina’s moneyed, refined family, led by elegant matriarch Claudine (Bassett).
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Madly in love, they quickly arrange their wedding, even though the two families haven’t met. Among the cast, Angela Bassett and Paula Patton will appeal to two generations of female audiences, but this TriStar offering may only prove to be a modest theatrical date-night performer.Īfter only a few months of dating, New York financial executive Jason (Laz Alonso) proposes to Sabrina (Patton), who will be moving to China because of her job as an attorney. Opening on Mother’s Day weekend in the US on May 6, Jumping The Broom will be facing competition from the romantic comedy Something Borrowed, as well as from Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, which opens two weeks earlier. Despite a large, lively cast, director Salim Akil’s comedy-drama doesn’t have anything new to say about love, family, or race.Īs Jumping The Broom takes a turn toward the dramatic more than halfway through, the movie’s innocuous good humour starts to seep away, resulting in one forced emotional showdown after another. Jumping The Broom starts with a promising idea – looking at two culturally and economically different African-American families who converge on Martha’s Vineyard for the marriage of their children – but is soon undone by melodramatic plot points and relentless wedding-movie clichés.