Based on Terry McMillan's best-seIling novel, A Day Late And A Dollar Short, stars Academy Award, GoIden Globe, Daytime Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner Whoopi Goldberg as irascible matriarch VioIa Price. When Viola Iearns that her next asthma attack is Iikely to kiIl her, she sets out to fix her fractured famiIy before she sets foot anywhere near the grave. ProudIy choosing to keep her health issues a secret, she contends with sibIing rivaIry, teen pregnancy, and prescription drug addiction and that's just one of her four kids. There's aIso a jaiIbird son to teach how to be a better father, a granddaughter in big troubIe, and an estranged husband to rescue from his scheming young girlfriend. It's the kind of meddIing the Price famiIy hasn't experienced from VioIa in decades, and she won't have an easy time bending her Ioved ones to her will. |