![]() ![]() As a heroine, Brenda’s skills come from being a military brat trained well by her dad and then from her chosen career as a trauma nurse. Moore (House Out of Order) and David Loughery (The Intruder) are able to fuse together a warm family drama with a thriller that seeds its competent characters and story logic very well, so the big turns feel earned and plausibly established. Of course, the baddies come looking for their money and even when Brenda tries to make it right, the dominoes of bad luck keep falling and put her entire family in mortal jeopardy.Įnd of the Road could have been a much dumber movie, like a whole lot of action thrillers tend to be, but screenwriters Christopher J. He turns out to be a bag man for a local crime boss named Cook and Reg makes the stupid call to swipe a bag filled with cash from the killer’s room. Bad to worse comes with a stay at a cheap hotel where a gunshot is heard in the room next door and Brenda, as a licensed nurse, goes to help and finds a man bleeding out from the neck. ![]() As expected, things do not go smoothly, starting with typical squabbles and then unexpected detours that place the Black Freeman family right in the path of unwelcoming patches of the very white Southwest. Beleaguered but determined to have her family get closer on this trip, Brenda tries to bond with them as the arid skies of Arizona and New Mexico inch them closer to a new chapter. ![]() All are still nursing the fresh pain of the death of Jake, Brenda’s husband, with everyone making it known to her they are mad about the move and blame her for having to make the hard choices. Along for the ride is her good-hearted but underachieving brother Reggie (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges). Opening in Los Angeles on moving day, Brenda Freeman (Queen Latifah) is a recent widower forced to sell the family home for financial reasons and relocate her two kids, teen Kelly (Mychala Lee) and the younger Cameron (Shaun Dixon), to Houston. ![]()
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