There is a difference, though. All of the characters in the movie are African-Americans. And the "Inkwell" is the name of a beach on Martha's Vineyard where the black bourgeoisie have owned summer homes for decades. For most American moviegoers, the world of this movie will be as unfamiliar as the other side of the moon. Although TV has shown many middle-class black families (notably the Huxtables), if you only knew what you learned at the movies you wouldn't suspect that most black Americans are employed, many of them are affluent, and, yes, some of them are Republicans.
The movie establishes its summer beach location and then moves into its story of a boy who becomes a man. In the case of Drew (Larenz Tate), the journey will be longer than most. At 16, he has no close friends and spends most of his time talking to a small wooden sculpture. His parents, Kenny and Brenda (Joe Morton and Suzzanne Douglas), are concerned, and hope the vacation on the Vineyard with her sister's family will help Drew break out of his rut.
It will be a breakthrough for them, too, since Kenny, a onetime Black Panther, has never been close with his conservative brother-in-law.
It does. He falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Lauren Kelly (Jada Pinkett), who is rude to him at first but then takes some amusement in ordering him around, and eventually even gets to like him, during a long talk on the beach. Drew gets around, and finds the island populated with other beautiful women, including Heather Lee (Adrienne-Joi Johnson), whose husband (Morris Chestnut) is a philanderer.
Although the movie is rated R, for "language," this is in fact an innocent comic fantasy, in which no problem is too deep to be solved in two weeks, especially with the encouragement of an understanding woman. And Drew seems to attract understanding like a magnet, not only from Lauren and Mrs. Lee but from his aunt (Vanessa Bell Calloway) and a wise local therapist (Phyliss Yvonne Stickney).
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