The stress of being the sole financial provider for the family has her teetering on the edge of a breakdown, so when her husband decides he wants to take an unpaid internship with a brokerage firm, she snaps-and leaves him and their 5 year-old son. His wife works two full-time jobs but still doesn’t earn enough to cover their expenses. He uses his life savings to purchase a bunch of radiology machines that aren’t selling, despite his best efforts. The story, set in San Francisco in the early 1980s, is about an African American man who goes through an unbelievably tough streak. For super-macho men like myself, this can be quite embarrassing (though my wife loves it). And once in a while (like when the five-year-old son tells his dad, “You’re a good papa”) you get so close to yelping that you make one of those bizarre “I’m-trying-not-to-cry” gasping sounds. It’s one of those great “against-all-odds” movies where you (at some points) have to spend quite a bit of energy to keep from crying.
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