Holiday Heart
Geregisseerd door Robert Townsend, VS, 2000, 100 min.
Ving Rhames als Holiday
Alfre Woodard
Mykelti Williamson
Drag queen Holiday
voelt zich nogal
verlaten. Op een dag ontmoet hij een 12-jarig meisje dat geen huis meer
heeft. Holiday
besluit het meisje en haar moeder, een drugverslaafde schrijfster, in
huis te
nemen. Door zijn hulp kunnen moeder en dochter langzaamaan hun leven
weer
opbouwen. Helaas kan de moeder maar moeilijk afstand nemen van haar
dealer.
Holiday
Heart is a Gay African American man who performs as a
drag queen
at a popular night club in the city. His mother trailed against him. He
is
talented, tough, compassionate, and a dedicated Christian, despite his
sexuality. After his boyfriend dies, he befriends a down on her luck,
drug
addicted, single woman, Wanda (Alfre Woodard) and her young daughter
Niki
(Jesika Reynolds). Holiday offers them a stable home and becomes a much
needed
father figure for Niki.
However,
things go astray when the mother becomes addicted to drugs again and
after a
series of bad relationships, starts one up with a successful drug
dealer Silas
(Mykelti Williamson) who is as homophobic as he is chauvinist. Silas
gives
Holiday money and insists, with some threats, that he stay out of their
life,
which Holiday agrees to do before preparing to move to Paris.
Yet,
both
Silas and Wanda leave Niki alone. Silas has to go away on a
"business" trip, because Wanda starts to use too much of his product,
and she becomes a prostitute to feed her drug addiction. Holiday steps
in to
take care of Niki and raises her as his own daughter. Under Holiday's
guidance,
Niki is baptized at the local Church, and graduates from elementary
school with
honors.
Soon
after,
a more friendly Silas reenters their lives, and is thankful for what
Holiday
has done. He has been getting a house in Florida ready for Wanda and
Niki, but
is still earning a living by selling drugs. Holiday and Silas become a
sort of
"odd couple" as Niki begins junior high school, with Silas more
willing to respect and tolerate Holiday.
After
bringing Niki along on one of his illicit sales, she runs away and
bumps into
her mother, who tries to prostitute her in order to get more drugs. As
a result
of the incident, Silas leaves Niki in the care of Holiday. As an angry
teenager, Niki begins to rebel, but Holiday lays down the law with some
tough
love.
Right
before Christmas, Wanda appears at the gay nightclub where Holiday
works and
wants his help in getting clean and sober. The two walk to Holiday's
car, with
a bike for Niki, only to be attacked by some of Wanda's former drug
associates.
As a former boxer, Holiday manages to beat them up, but not before one
of them
runs over Wanda with their car, killing her.
The
film
then shifts to a few months later, where Niki is home from "spring
break" and visiting her mother's grave with Holiday. Silas has returned
and informs Niki and Holiday that when they get back from a trip to
Paris, he
has a surprise waiting for them.
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