Very challenging movie and I liked watching it.
I could relate because it was set in the mid-late 1970s, when I was a kid and teenager. We weren't as well-off as the Spaders, but I could relate to the identity issues and such. And thank God that my Dad wasn't tortured that much by assimilation issues.
It was interesting to see how each kid reacted to the not-fitting-in syndrome. Tommy sought out Morehouse College. Stormy ended up like Janet Cooke -- no matter how many Peter Pan collars or how you dye your hair, you're not white and you're not going to be white.
Whoopi Goldberg was the moral center of this movie, but she had her epiphany rather late, IMO.
Danny Glover=chilling performance. I was disturbed that he wasn't punished for what he did to one of Mo'Nique's houses.
