The movie revolves around the entire Whitfield family reuniting for Christmas after 4 years, the family involves Ma’Dere her lover Joe Black, Ma’Dere’s 6 children Quentin, Lisa, Kelli, Claude, Melanie and Michael. Lisa is married to Malcolm with 2 kids while Claude is secretly married to Sandi. Melanie is dating Devean while Kelli, Michael and Quentin have not yet found a serious partner for themselves. Because they are all reuniting after 4 years none of them want to reveal their personal problems thus prevent ruining the Christmas for everyone. The problems range from Ma’Dere not telling the children about her divorce from her husband (Quentin Senior) and the fact that Joe is living with her, Quentin comes back home only because he owes people (Mo & Dude) 25,000 dollars, Malcolm is having an affair and plans on selling his mother-in-law’s dry cleaners for something planned by him & his mistress while Lisa is simply stuck in the awkward marriage to a husband with a domineering aloof attitude. Kelli can’t seem to stand Malcolm because of how he treats Lisa while simultaneously is irked by Lisa’s dual personality ( being like Oprah with her family but reduced to nothing but a puppet in front of her husband). Claude is a marine corp who goes AWOL ^{absence without leave} to get married to his girlfriend Sandi who is incidentally pregnant. Melanie who is unaware of her mother’s affair with Joe as he moved in after she left for college and Michael loves singing but is scared to tell his Mother because she blames music for the Whitfield men not sticking around long (Quentin Junior & Senior are both musicians always traveling).

When Lisa tells everyone about her plans of selling the dry cleaner business and moving Ma’Dere and Joe to a condo Kelli realizes that it is Malcom’s idea and does not agree to sell her percentage of the business. Michael is offended that Lisa wants to take such a move and Melanie then is told of Joe living with Ma’Dere. Kelli then points out that they cannot sell the dry cleaners without Quentin’s percentage and as he’s not there but Quentin surprises everyone by suddenly popping over. Later in the night Kelli is seen trying to convince Quentin into not selling his percentage while Claude decides to secretly meet his wife at a local club. But the plan fails when Quentin, Kelli, Devean & Melanie all end up tagging along with him. At the club Claude meets his wife but tells her that he would meet her later as his family is present with him, Sandi upset yet hopeful about meeting him later leaves. The siblings then are shocked to see their youngest brother singing and are surprised when they realize that he is truly talented. Quentin finds his old High School buddy Gerald in the club, Gerald & Kelli end up leaving the club early for a date. While Claude ends up pulling his service revolver on 2 men who were earlier flirting with his wife. He is then taken away by his siblings and yelled at by Quentin, when Michael returns he tells the family that no one except him will tell Ma’Dere about his singing. Kelli returns from her date with Gerald (whom she has slept with) in the morning, she is asked to call the others down for breakfast; she then overhears Malcolm talking about his plans to his mistress but says nothing.  As the men are picking the Christmas tree, Gerald visits the Whitfield home in a Santa suit and fixes a date with Kelli. Lisa drops off Malcolm at the airport (He claims to be going to his office but is in fact is going to his mistresses place). Lisa then realizes that her marriage is truly a failed one.

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