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Joan! You'll never guess who's coming to town on Mother's Day. Uh, your mother?

I was kind of hoping you'd think that was too obvious.

But, you'll never guess what she's bringing her baby.

Uh, his blankie?

Don't be silly, Joan. Mom would never take that off the little cowboy bed.

again.

I can't. I'm still in shock.

Oh.

My mother.

is bringing my Aunt Bessie's Pillsbury Bake Off Blue Ribbon 7 -Up Cake.

Oh, darn.

And here I was looking forward to your Uncle Henry's Johnny Walker Red Label

Sweet Potato Pie.

Now, Uncle Henry's pie has kind of lost its kick since he went to rehab.

I feel free. Thanks for almost forgot.

Y 'all are wrong. Okay, sending your mother love in a box.

Hey, I sent my mother to a Zen retreat in Sedona. Don't you send your mother

away on Mother's Day? What kind of daughter are you?

The kind who spends $500 a day so that my mother can have a fireplace and a

of the vortex.

Oh, please. I honor my mother every day. I don't need some trumped -up holiday

that only exists to line the pockets of greeting card companies.

You don't have any money, do you?

And my mother understands that.

Okay, well, you know what, Tony? Your mother's just a couple hours away. Why

don't you invite her out? Look, I love my mama dearly, but she and L .A. do not

mix. It would take us all day to get from the airport to my house, you know,

slowing down so she could stare at all the crazy city folk.

Okay, well, since you all disrespect your own mothers, the least you can do

honor the mother among you.

Maya, you're the wind beneath her wings.

Now, what time's that boat leave?

Maya, when would we honor you anyway? You always spend Mother's Day with your

family. Oh, what? So all of a sudden we're not family?

Okay, um, how about we have brunch at my house Sunday, 11 o 'clock. Okay.

I can't stay long, though.

Y 'all know I got family.

Joan, you gotta call it for me. Oh, William, I gotta be at court in 15

But I gotta go find Mama.

She and my cake accidentally got on a train to Chicago.

You're going to Chicago?

No, she figured it out around St. Louis.

You were going to St. Louis?

Amtrak rerouted her. Now she's somewhere near Topeka.

So you're going in... Albuquerque. Stay with me, Joan.

That's where Mama changes trains.

God only knows where she'll end up then.

Her inner ear problems have completely destroyed her sense of direction.

Not to mention it's only a matter of time before she's tired of that dining

food and starts to gnaw on my cake.

Maybe she's not home.

Of course she's home. Where else would she be?

Mama?

Ma, come on. Darnell and I want to catch this movie real quick. Need you to

watch Jabari.

Mama?

Mama? Mama?

Oh,

hell no!

Come on, let's go.

Why? What's the problem?

Not in front of the child. Maya. Darnell.

Jabari. Daddy.

Jabari.

What are you doing just barging into my room?

Evening, Maya.

Hi, Earl.

Can I, uh, please talk to my mother alone?

Maya. Mama.

Let go, baby.

You want some iced tea?

Thank you.

Maya. This is my house, Earl. I can get my own iced tea, but thank you.

Whatever's coming.

Don't start. Don't you start!

You are not so grown that I can't still smack those legs.

Mommy, I'm just saying. I mean, the man's walking around like he owns the

Well, Ma, that's none of your business. No, it is my business. No, it is not

your business. This is my house, and that's my man, and you need to go so we

finish round three.

Okay, you know what?

Mommy, I really don't need to know that.

Well, you do need to hear this. From now on, you got to give me a little more

notice if you want me to babysit.

Baby, where's the whipped cream?

chickens later. Just five more minutes, Mama.

Mama!

Tony, what are you doing still lolling in bed?

It's almost seven.

Mama, oh my God, what are you doing here?

Why didn't you tell me about Joan's Mother's Day brunch?

Huh?

Mama, Mama, I was gonna tell you, but... Yeah, but you was too busy sleeping.

Reed Charles are you sleeping with

Fresno. Oh, sorry.

I got her a phone card, too.

Hey, guess who else is coming to your Mother's Day brunch?

Earl. And guess what he likes to eat? Whipped cream. And guess what he likes

Oh, my mama.

Ooh, whipped cream, go, Jeanette.

Hey, guys.

I saw my mama getting her free coffee.

You got six brothers and sisters.

I said my parents don't have sex.

I can deal with my mom having sex. I can. I don't ever want to see it again,

I can deal with it. What I can't deal with is the fact that she has the

to tell me to give her notice if I need her to watch Jabari.

Well, that sounds reasonable.

Joan, okay, how much notice do you have to give somebody before you can evict

them?

My mother wants her rent on time, okay? She does not play that.

I paid my rent on time, okay?

Your mom's evicted me because she's selling the house and moving to San

Bernardino with Earl.

Oops.

I take it you didn't know that.

No, no, I'm just respecting your grandmama's privacy.

Appreciate it.

Hi,

who are you?

Savannah. You a friend of Jabari's from school?

No. This is Earl's granddaughter.

Grandma Jeanette, can I get a fruit roll -up? Sure, baby.

You got her calling you grandma?

You only got one grandchild, Mommy.

Unless, of course, you know there's something else you forgot to tell me.

Like the fact that you're moving to San Bernardino with Earl.

Maya, baby, I'm sorry.

I was going to tell you tonight. How could you do this to me?

How could you just be selling our house? And why do I have to hear about it on

the street? I have been meaning to tell you. I just didn't know how.

I was scared, okay, Maya? But everything is moving so fast. Please know, this is

hard for me, too.

Then don't do it.

But I love Earl. You don't even know him. No, you don't know him. No, no, I

don't have to know him to know I don't like him.

Well, Maya, I'm happy, and I want you to be happy for me.

Mommy, why do you have to be happy in San Bernardino, huh?

Why can't you be happy living across the street from me? Because Earl got a

great job there. You know what? You know what? I don't care about Earl.

What about us?

Maya, you are doing so good.

You and Darnell are happy again.

Jabari is a little man now. You got your friends, a great job, and you're going

back to school.

Let me have something for myself.

Come in the kitchen. I got some papers I need you to sign.

What papers?

I need to transfer the title to my name so I can sell the house.

Remember, I put your name on the deed in case anything ever happened to me.

Oh.

Oh, so you can't sell this house without me.

I can, I guess.

But, well, no, basically I can't.

Oh, okay.

Good. Then I ain't signing.

Jabari, come on.

Maya, don't do this. I'm the only mama you got.

Don't you do this. I'm the only daughter you've got.

Well, Maya, I'm young. I could have another daughter.

But you can never have another mother.

Jabari, let go.

Bye, Grandma.

Bye, baby.

Don't worry. I'll talk to her.

Mama, listen to me.

What time do you get to Phoenix?

Okay, I want you to get off the train and wait for me there. I'm on my way.

Now, Mama, listen to me very carefully. This is very important.

How is the cake?

Look, I may not be eating this food, but I don't want you

breathing all over it.

Lynn, what's the matter?

Oh, nothing.

I'm just taking a break.

You know, thinking about being homeless.

Enough of you guys to worry about. I'll be just fine.

I've got a few free -winder passes.

There's this one where the one -on -one meets the five.

It's actually quite nice.

Oh, the love of God. Will somebody offer this poor child room?

Don't! You blink, Tony. You're off the hook.

Tony Child.

Hi, Daddy.

Uh -huh, right. You're driving me crazy.

Girl, hand me that phone.

Eugene, she the one driving me crazy.

Bringing me to some Japanese place.

She know damn well I had my heart set on Red Lobster.

What's up, y 'all? Sorry I'm late. Did you order for me? Oh, here. There's

plenty. Eat that.

Maya, I saw your mom this morning.

She really said about your fight, and I think you should talk to her.

I ain't got nothing to say to her.

Well, at least I can say I tried.

Maya, you really should talk to your mother.

Why? She's the one abandoning me.

Abandoning you? Yeah. Come on. She's moving to San Bernardino, for God's

It's like the next... County. Just sign the papers. I wish I could sign some

papers and send my mama away somewhere.

You would with that because none of y 'all like your mother.

Wait a minute.

Maya, I love my mother.

thinking about wearing to jones mother's day brunch tomorrow why you want to do

a little mother daughter coordinates no no i was just curious well same thing i

wore today my pants who's washing wet mama mama how about after church before

go to jones we go over to saxon i buy you a new outfit what you don't like my

pantsu it's shaw i liked it when you bought it

to me for Mother's Day.

Tony, all I want for Mother's Day is for my daughter to stop acting like I

embarrass her.

Mama, you don't embarrass me.

Yes, I do, Tony.

I see it all the time, and it hurts.

Now, how does my being me stop you from being you?

Mama, it's just that it's a lot of you, and it's loud.

Well, isn't that the big and loud calling the big and loud big and loud?

But you're big and flashy.

You got to be seen. Seen in your big flashy car and all your flashy clothes.

Flashing your cleavage.

You know mama likes it covered up. Do I say anything?

Uh -uh. I accept you as you are.

Now, if you want to spend all your money on all this material nothingness just

to make yourself feel more special than what you already are, then that's your

business.

But mama...

You think I'm special?

Honey, of course I do.

I always have.

Mama, you know I never meant to hurt you. Oh, I know that, baby.

I know that.

All right, all right.

Good night, now.

Mama, will you sleep with me tonight?

and she signed it.

Just couldn't bring it herself, huh?

Well, give her some time. She's starting to crack.

You know, she wants you to make some of them collard greens.

Come here.

Okay, fine, then, for me, but you know that girl don't cook when she gets mad.

Dang.

Sweetie, no, no, no, no, sweetie.

The pork's on the left side, okay?

Why do I have to set the table? Daddy said this is one... Oh, is that what you

teach in your song?

Maya, now you know I would never say something like that.

Boy, why you got to repeat everything I say?

You talk too much.

I got it.

Hey, baby.

Happy Mother's Day, Grandma.

Oh, thank you.

Happy Mother's Day.

Happy Mother's Day, everybody.

Happy Mother's Day!

I thought I told you I needed some time.

Come on, Maya, it's been a day.

A day that has almost killed me.

Well, ask her how she's going to handle it when she moves all the way to San

Bernardino. You ask her. I'm tired of this.

You know what? I'm tired, too. I'll be in the car.

Maya, sit down.

You can't tell me what to do. You're not my mother.

Yeah, but I am. Sit down.

Don't talk to her.

Maya, you are always rubbing it in our faces that you are so close to your

mother. Well, if you're so close to her, then why are you hurting her like this?

Yeah, is this how you really want to spend the last few days you're in town

together?

She's always given you everything that you needed.

She wasn't finished raising you when she started helping you and Darnell raise

Jabari.

Maya. She's asking you for this one thing, and you're telling her no.

Come on, baby. It's going to be all right. You know what? You guys leave me

alone.

You don't understand.

I need my mama, okay?

Baby, don't cry. You're going to make mama cry. Come on.

I'm going to miss you.

I'm going to miss you, too.

You better call me every day. Of course.

go messing up my mother's day mask.

I'm going to go and call my mother, and I'm going to hug my... Oh.

Okay.

Yeah, I see the gas station.

All right, making a right.

All right, I've made the right.

Yeah, I see the big Indian sign.

Yeah, yeah, I'm coming. Do you see me?

I'm in the champagne Mercedes.

Okay, the tan sedan.

No, Mama, it's not American. It's German.

Mama, we won World War II. It's over.

Wait, I think I see you.

Are you in the green dress standing by the blue car?

Yeah, I see you waving. You see me waving?

Mama, what are you eating?