Mel Jackson

Sunday dinner at Mothers Joe's (Irma P. Hall) is a mouth watering, 40 year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) and her sisters Teri (Vanessa Williams) and Bird (Nia Long). But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.

A Chicago family whose spiritual center is is Mother Joe and her famous Sunday dinners starts to spin out of control when the matriarch is hospitalized - how will the three sisters cope? A winning comedy-drama, with Nia Long.

When diabetes hospitalizes matriarch Mama Joe, Sunday soul food dinners end. The relationship between her three daughters becomes strained, so grandson Ahmed comes up with a solution to bring the three close again and back to their family dinner table.

Sometimes it takes a lot of good food to keep a family together.