They're not perfect, but they are family. The best & the worst of the Slocumb family are on display when Woodrow " Bud" Slocumb keels over from a stroke. As the town swelters in the summer heat, family tensions reach a comedic boil as the Slocumb clan comes together to remember their dearly departed. The long-suffering Charisse (Jada Pinkett Smith) is sick of her bumbling, unfaithful husband Junior (Anthony Anderson). The scripture-spouting Marguerite (Loretta Devine) prays to save her hard-living son Royce (Darius Mc Crary), whose chief ambition is a life on welfare. Family peacekeeper Lucille (Vivica A. Fox) has her hands full with a money hungry funeral director, & her husb&, Ray Bud, (LL Cool J) who would rather bury his family than his father. As the Slocumbs squabble & fight their way to the funeral, they discover new ways to define the term "dysfunctional."