In this heartfelt family drama based on the novel by Terry McMillan, Whoopi Goldberg delivers a powerful performance as Viola Price, a sharp-tongued matriarch who has spent her life holding her sprawling and fractured family together despite countless disappointments. When a sudden health scare forces Viola to confront her own mortality, she decides to write a letter to each of her adult children, hoping to mend the deep rifts that have torn them apart. Ving Rhames co-stars as her long-suffering husband Cecil, whose own secrets and frustrations have pushed the couple to the brink of separation. As their children—played by Anika Noni Rose, Mekhi Phifer, Kimberly Elise, and Lyriq Bent—navigate their own messy lives filled with infidelity, financial ruin, and personal failures, they must finally reckon with the love and dysfunction that defines their family. Directed by Stephen Tolkin, this emotionally charged drama balances humor and heartache as it explores the messy, resilient bonds of kinship and the painful truth that sometimes love arrives a day late and a dollar short.