Another movie made in the SBC is now out on DVD. So get your copy immediately (and NOT on bootleg!!!!) or rent it and check out the DVD extras ...
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins was filmed right here in Shreveport/Bossier (and in Minden) and I had the pleasure of being on the crew (shout out to all the TBM crew! lol) ....
The set was amazing, the people were cool and the cast (most of them anyway) were professional and great to be around.
Martin Lawrence, Joy Bryant, Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Michael Clarke Duncan, Margaret Avery, James Earl Jones, Nicole Ari Parker, Mo'Nique -- It was a laugh-fest every day.
And Malcolm D. Lee (like his cousin Spike) is a great director. He also directed and wrote The Best Man.
Jenkins was his second time with a writer/director title but he also directed Undercover Brother and Roll Bounce.
The film itself is set in the South. Dry Springs, Georgia to be exact.
(Yes Shreveport can double as GA, L.A. and whatever else these movie people want! lol)
Martin's character RJ Stevens/Roscoe Jenkins is a big-time talk show host in L.A., engaged to Survivor winner "Bianca" (Joy Bryant).
RJ/Roscoe comes home for his parents' 50th Anniversary and reunites with his country roots and his first love, Lucinda (Nicole Ari Parker).
The entire weekends reignites old flames, old rivalries and spawns two-hours full of laughs.
Though a lot of what I saw on-set was cut from the movie, a lot of the ad libs were added to the movie (mostly everything Mike Epps said was not in the original script).
The movie is rated PG-13 but I must say it probably should have been R.
There's quite a bit of gratuitous cursing in the movie and though most of it is funny as hell, it walks the line at being stereotypical of Black families.
But all-in-all, it ends with a great message and is truly a movie about family and remembering where you came from.
So pick it up!!!! Today!!!!
And for those of you who know me and know my government name, look for ya girl in the credits :)
- m
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