Mel Jackson

Soul Food -- Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food.

Her sisters think she's a gift from heaven. Their husbands call her the sister-in-law from hell. But Eva (Gabrielle Union) is too busy being a smart, sassy, overprotective overachiever to really care what anyone thinks. That is until the guys decide the only way they will ever score any quality time with their women is to find single Eva a man. Pronto. Enter Ray (LL Cool J) an ultra-suave player's player, who is hired to make Eva fall madly in love with him. All goes according to plan until this ladies' man finds himself unexpectedly falling for this beautiful lady in this hip, fresh and funny comic romp.

Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food.

Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food.

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.

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.