Dirty Laundry

Dirty Laundry
  • Release date: 15 Jul 2006
  • Release year: 2006
  • Runtime: 100 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: georgia usa, knock at the door, new york, boy, pride, laundry, laundress, writer, secret, return
Plot:
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?
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