- LEAH: This place gon' be so nice,
we gonna make so much money. - I got a cramp in my hand.
- Who would walk around saying they got a hook,
turns out he got a real hand?
- You know, it's freeing not having that hook,
now I can give you the finger.
- Mr. Vinny!
- We were looking for you and your sister.
- I was at the mall.
- Did you ask somebody if you can go somewhere, boy?!
- PHILLIP: I was just following Sandra.
- Hi. - Where have you been?!
- Were you with a boy? - Is that what he said?
- I just told 'em what I saw. - What is the big deal?
- Sex trafficking is at an all-time high!
You should have told somebody you were going!
You are grounded. What's going on with her?
- ♪
- She's just gonna go with some boy.
- I know, baby.
- I mean, just like that? - I know, baby.
- I mean, she didn't even tell us.
- I know, baby. - Just like that?
- I know, baby.
- Would you stop saying, "I know, baby."
and say something else.
- Babe...
- Babe, I need you to stop saying "Baby,"
and say something else.
I mean, she just got in the car with that grown man.
- Well, he was the bus driver.
- Excuse you, Mr. Brown.
- What are you doing? This not your business!
- I'm trying to help her!
- You're trying to get hurt is what you trying to do.
- Cora, what am I supposed to do?
I don't know what to do with my hands.
- You see all this stuff that need to be done around here?
- Cora, you know I ain't that good at--
- A damn thing.
- You watch your mouth. - You watch your back.
- Grandpa!
- Well, he looked at me funny.
- My back is to you, how am I gonna look at you like this?
- Them bumps on the back of your head look like eyes.
- Just stop it, okay?
- Mr. Brown go find something to do.
- Fine!
I'll just go out here and clean up.
- Well thank you.
- MR. BROWN: Move your ugly self out the way!
Look sick in the face.
- I'm sorry, y'all go on and talk.
Come on, Mr. Vinny.
- Where am I going?
- You going to the kitchen to help me.
- What's that got to do with me?
- Mr. Vinny, come on!
- [laughing] Oh, I get it.
- Get what?
- You wanna spend some time with old Vinny.
- Man, come on.
- I know about them lonely church women.
- First of all, I'm not lonely.
Let's get that straight.
- Well you know what? Uh, back in the day I used to be
the man around here.
- CORA: Mmm.
- Girl, I'll have you pregnant in no time.
[laughing]
- Man, you better come on before I hurt you.
- VINNY: That's what she said.
- What are we gonna do about that?
- What? My grandpa knows how to handle himself.
You know how my family is.
- She gonna be in love with him.
- Lil' Nasty, I'm talking 'bout your daughter.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, you're talking about
our little Fast and Furious. Umm, we'll talk to her.
- No, you can talk to her, 'cause if I talk to her,
it's gon' be some trouble. Okay?
- Oh, yeah? What kind of trouble is that?
- Hmm. I'mma be in jail.
- Well, you know we got them cuffs, baby.
We can go ahead and practice if you want.
- They hurt.
[laughing]
Thank you for making me laugh, baby.
- Mwah.
I know you was mad, baby.
But I like when you get mad.
- [laughing]
- You being all strong and screaming...
- ♪
♪ No matter what you do
♪ I love you
♪ No matter where you go
♪ I'm behind you for sure
♪ Always remember blood ain't never water ♪
♪ We'll make it if we stay together ♪♪
- [doorbell ringing]
- Woo.
Hey, Leah.
- Hey, Cora.
- Ooh girl, God is so good!
I was just jamming in my car.
- Amen. Mm-hmm.
- Well, you don't sound excited about the Lord.
- I am, hallelujah.
- Oh.
Alright, well, this place is gonna be so nice.
- Yes it is.
- Yeah, I see all the potential.
Just look at all this potential.
- Mm-hmm.
I can too.
- Yes, what we could do is,
we gonna take these curtains right here
and get some new curtains
where the sun will just shine through!
- Yup, that would be nice.
- Ooh, and then we're gonna paint all these walls hot pink.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
- And I'mma let Mr. Brown choose all the rest
of the colors.
- Oh, that'll be nice.
- Okay, so what did I say?
- Look, I'm sorry.
- You're distracted. - No. You know, I'm fine.
It's okay.
- Well, go on, tell me. I know you're not okay.
- You know what? I know. [chuckles]
I mean, I do that, I say that all the time.
But I am fine.
- Okay, well it's good to talk about things.
- Nope, you know what? I'm fine.
- I mean. But--
- I just--you know, I just can't believe
she would do what she did.
- Well, yeah, I--I get that.
- We taught her better than that.
- Well honey, you can teach your kids everything
when they're young, but they do grow up, now.
- Yeah, but she was so cute when she was young.
- And she's still cute! And young.
- No, she ain't. - Stop that.
- You know what I mean.
- What you mean is, it was easy to control her.
- Yes! - Well--
D--ah-- Do you hear yourself?
- I know, I don't want to control her, Cora.
But I just want her to--to-- to...to make better decisions.
- CORA: I get that.
But baby, you have to trust the word.
- What do you mean?
- It says, "Train up a child in the way it should go,
and when they old, they won't depart from it."
- Does that work?
- Well, listen honey. I've seen some stray
but they always come back to what they was taught.
- Hmm, I hope you're right.
- Look, she seems like a nice kid.
She's a nice girl.
- She is.
- And you and your husband did a good job, right?
- I know, but we just... we work so hard.
- Right, well... - LEAH: I mean--
And I just really feel like I wish I'd have spent
more time with both of them.
- CORA: Look, a lot of parents feel that way.
We have that same guilt.
- Is that right? - Yes!
We work so hard to try to take care of our kids
and our family.
But it happens to everybody, baby, that guilt just sets in.
- I just--well...
- Listen, you just have to believe
you done the right thing by her,
and let that be that.
- It's a lot easier said than done.
- I get that.
- And teenagers... [groaning]
- They can be tough, huh?
[laughing] I know.
Trust me, I know baby.
- Now, when I was a teenager a few years ago,
things were different.
- Did you say a few years ago?
- You know what I mean.
- I know girl, 'cause it was the same for me.
A few years ago.
Woo!
- Now, Cora. - CORA: What?
- [stuttering]
You know, you just said a few years ago.
- Wait a minute, what you trying to say?
- I'm just saying maybe it was a little bit more--
lil' bit more than a few years.
- Oh, it was a little bit more than a few for you too.
- You know what? You right. - Mm-hmm.
And nobody knows what a few is.
It can be a few dozen.
And you ain't no spring chicken yourself.
- Alright, now, I'm with you when you're right, alright.
- Okay. - [laughing]
- CORA: Don't be trying to come for me, baby.
I'mma be like them young people, don't be trying
to come for me, girl, 'cause look...
- Now Ms. Cora, you know they stopped saying that
in the 90s.
- Well, don't they be breaking it down like this?
- In the 90s.
- Oh, I thought that was in the 2000s.
- I'm sorry. It's okay.
- You know, I think I still look good for my age.
- Now that you do! - Allow me to profile for you.
- Come on, somebody. Come on!
- [laughing] I know, girl.
- You know, you're a little feisty.
- I get it from my mama, girl. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, honey.
- You know, I really didn't mean any harm.
I just--I guess I just wanted to know what you knew
about teenagers in this day and age.
- Well, you know I raised two daughters.
- Did you? - CORA: Yes, honey.
They was tough, too. I mean, they were a handful.
Lord, have mercy.
But we made it.
- Were you married?
- Yes, I was married a long time ago
but he passed away.
- Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... - CORA: That's alright.
But I do know teenagers, and I taught high school.
- Mmm, so you really know.
- Yeah, I know a little bit honey.
Yes, baby, sit down.
Sit down, let me tell you something.
You know, you gotta know that a move like this
can make a child doubt a lot about what they know.
You know, moving into a new place,
and new schools and everything.
- LEAH: New friends. - New friends.
- LEAH: Yeah, I mean, I know this is gonna be
hard for her, I really do.
- Yeah.
- But that does not mean she gets to be disrespectful.
- And you're right about that.
- And she is grounded.
- Well, I don't blame you for that.
She'd be grounded if she was mine too, baby.
And if she was my mama's child-- - Your mom?
- She'd have a couple black eyes.
- Your mama?
- Baby, she would have double deuced, baby.
- Ooh, oh.
- She couldn't bob and weave
'cause she would have caught her.
- My mom was like an octopus,
hands coming from everywhere. - Everywhere.
- Heavyweight fighter.
- Ooh, well I'm glad your mom ain't here.
- No, she better be glad my mama ain't here.
But listen to me, Leah.
You did the right thing, sweetheart.
- Thank you, Ms. Cora.
- You're welcome, you're welcome.
It's gonna be alright.
- But why do I feel so bad about it? [sighs]
- ♪
- Oh, don't cry, sweetheart.
Baby, don't start crying
'cause you gonna make me cry and I don't wanna
cry right now.
I think I'm looking cute.
- You are.
I didn't do anything wrong, though.
- You didn't, sweetheart.
You didn't do nothing wrong.
- So why am I so sad?
- Because it hurts sometimes when we punish our kids.
You know, it hurts to do that to correct them.
- I know.
- It's for their own good, baby. - Yeah, I know.
- I get that you're upset.
But this will help her in the long run, okay?
- Yeah. I just--I feel like
parents just don't get a handbook
and I just want my family to be happy.
I want everybody to be happy.
- Punishing your kids is good for them.
You just can't give them too much freedom, honey.
We still got to guide them along the way.
That's what's happening out here in this world now,
kids is getting too much freedom.
But as long as you giving her good guidance
they gonna be alright.
Both of 'em, they gonna be some good kids.
- I understand that.
- Let me tell you something, don't feel bad about that, okay?
She was wrong.
But girl, let me say it again, if my mama had seen her...
- I gotta meet your mama!
- No you don't, 'cause that's old fashioned right there.
With a capital F. - Capital F?
- Yes, honey.
It would have been a whole lot of slow walking
and loud singing.
- What you mean? A funeral? - CORA: Yes, girl.
She would've baptised her in the wrong way.
- Oh, my gosh.
- BOTH: [laughing]
- Well, I'm sure glad your mama not here.
- Again, she better be glad too.
- [laughing]
- It's gonna be alright, baby. - I know.
- Alright. - Thank you.
- Now, what was you doing before I got here?
- Just trying to clean up this place.
- With no water?
- I know, right?
- That does make it difficult, don't it?
Well, I wonder what the men doing out there.
- Apparently nothing.
Let's get them to do something!
- Well, you know what? I'mma try something.
Let me see what I can do with this plumbing.
I know a thing or two, baby.
I was a single mama.
I know a lot about a lot. - LEAH: Okay, alright.
- Now, where is your tool... I see a toolbox.
- You know, my husband don't know what a wrench is.
- Your husband don't know what a wrench is?
- No, ma'am. - That's so sad.
These young men of today.
Alright, now look. Ooh, this one!
Look at this big old vice grip!
- You know the name of everything, don't you?!
- Well, you know you got to when you're a single mama.
- Okay!
- Hi.
- Go away!
- I mean, I would but we share the same bedroom.
- Why did you do that?
- What did I do?
- Tell mom and dad about him.
- What do you mean? I should have.
- Why?
- Because you shouldn't have gotten in the car with him.
- You know, they just make us move here,
and we have to do everything they say.
- Well, they are our parents.
- Well, I don't like it.
- You don't really have a choice.
- God, you're such a loser.
- And you're such a grounded loser.
- I'm not grounded. - What?!
Yes, you are. I heard them say it.
- Well, I'm going out again.
- And where are you gonna go?
- Don't you worry your pretty little head.
- You're just making this situation worse for yourself.
- Yeah, well, whatever.
- Why are you so hard-headed?
- And why are you such a spoiled brat?
- Just because I do what they say,
doesn't make me spoiled.
- Oh, really?! What would you call it?
- Understanding what mom and dad are going through.
- Yeah, well, you can understand it all you want.
- I do. - Okay, fine.
- Alright, and you better not leave.
- [scoffs] Watch me.
- If you leave, I'm gonna tell 'em.
- So? - Leave and see what happens.
- Leave me alone!
- Alright, fine.
- God.
- ♪
- Alright, now.
Woo, try it, try it, try it!
- [screaming]
- It works!
You did that!
- I told you I know a little bit about something.
It wasn't rocket science.
- Well, you know the men gonna say it is.
- Right. - [laughing]
- Mr. Vinny gon' come in-- [grumbling]
- BOTH: [growling]
[laughing]
- I'm just glad it's working.
- I know, me too! - LEAH: Wooh!
And now my baby gets to take a bath.
- Glory, hallelujah. - Glory, hallelujah.
- Ooh honey, you need to, um...
- [thudding]
- What is Mr. Brown doing?! Mr. Brown?!
- MR. BROWN: The doors won't close at the same time!
Cora?!
- Yes, I'm right here.
- Woo Cora, I'm thirsty.
And Friday.
I need some water.
- Well, get you some water!
- I would if the water was working.
- It's some water in the fridge.
- I would get some outta there too if the fridge was working.
- [clearing throat]
- Stove ain't working,
ain't nothing working around here, Cora.
- Honey, honey, honey, you know you need to, um...
- Thank me.
- What? - JEREMY: For what?
- 'Cause I got the water working.
- Now how you do that?
- Well, it was...very difficult, complicated,
you had to take the missen mass off and
it was a soldering iron... - Soldering iron?
- VINNY: And you had to weld the part
and then took some 2x4s, sawdust...
It's very complicated.
You ladies' small brains wouldn't understand it.
- Oh.
- That the valve was rusted and I replaced it?
- Oh.
- Whose brain is small?
- I can't believe she just came for your manhood.
- Somebody took yours in that hat.
- So wait, wait, wait, we got water now?
- CORA: Yes! - Honey...
- Aw, that means I can...
- Finally get your stanky self washed!
- You can take my lavender...
- MR. BROWN: And scrub with it!
Scrub 'til you see skin!
- And wash that ass.
- Mr. Vinny!
- Thoroughly, get up in there.
Both hands.
- Okay, I get it, I stink. - Yes!
- Bath? - Okay.
- Scrub. - Mwah!
- MR. BROWN: Oh, you kissed him like...
- [screaming] Get out of here, boy!
[laughing]
- Maybe we should have told him.
- Told him what?
- We only got cold water.
- You know, he'll be fine.
- I don't know about that.
That cold water cause shrinkage.
- Mr. Brown...
- Now, Cora, one time I jumped in a lake
and it was real cold and it just, I felt it just go--
[slurping] - What went like that?
- Turned boulders into raisins, Cora.
- You had raisins. - Like I had two navels.
- Oooh. - Cora, I thought I was a girl.
I would have sung as...
[singing]
- Hell, with that hat on, we still think you're a girl.
- Ooh.
- And them boots.
Oh, is that a damn tassel?
- Mr. Vinny!
- Where's the parade?
- [laughing]
- You think that's funny?
- They do, too.
- MR. BROWN: Y'all think that's funny?
- I'm sorry Mr. Brown, yes.
- People are sensitive nowadays.
- Oh, okay.
- You can't make that joke about people nowadays.
- What?
- You gotta be plili, plili,
plili, plili, plili correct.
- March your ass on outta here.
- High knees, come on, high knees!
- ♪
- [laughing]
- Mr. Vinny, okay, that was good.
Now go find you something to do.
- LEAH: Put him to work. - Right, he need to.
- Oh, my goodness.
- And he better... - Yes.
- Mr. Brown, stop messing with those doors.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Oh, I had that on backwards.
- Well, that's something you can fix.
So is that hat.
- Woo Cora, I'm finished.
- You finished with what?
Those boots, Mr. Brown. Jeez.
- They really from a marching band?
- Yes! - And those knees.
- I used to be with the--the black marching band.
[singing]
Wait a minute, that hurt.
- Good thing this is a retirement home.
- Yes! Cora, I'm finished. I did everything.
- So, what was you doing?
- You didn't hear my lawn mower out there?
- Oh, no.
- Oh, it's a quiet electric lawn mower.
- Oh, really? - MR. BROWN: Yes, yeah.
- Well that's good.
- I was mowing that grass out there.
- That's good too. - MR. BROWN: Mm-hmm.
- Say what?!
- Say I was mowing the grass out there.
- Umm, so you cut the, cut the--cut the backyard?
- Ooh, yes!
You didn't hear me out there?!
[buzzes] It's a quiet one.
[buzzes] Like that.
- What exactly did you cut?!
- Like I said, exactly the backyard.
- Where exactly?
How mu--mu--much of the backyard did you cut?
- All of the backyard.
All, all, all of the backyard.
You slow?
- Damn!
- Now she cussing!
- Umm, oh, all hell is about to break loose.
- What?! What you talking about?!
- That's Grandpa Vinny's weed crop.
- Weed?! - Weed crop?!
- Damn!
- ♪
- [whoosh]
- ♪