The lives of 25-year-old Jean Jones and her multi-generational, middle-class Jamaican-American family is changed forever after their estranged patriarch dies on their doorstep. Throughout the film, the Jones women face their divorces, infidelities, and past transgressions.
Introducing both a fresh new voice and a fresh new face to independent filmmaking, Jean of the Joneses is a crisply urbane comedy from first-time writer-director Stella Meghie, boasting a sparkling lead performance by Taylour Paige.
While its themes don't feel properly developed, breakout title actor Taylour Paige and her fictional family (including Sherri Shepherd and Gloria Reuben) make the Joneses worth keeping up with.
Takes its cues from both Woody Allen's self-indulgent worlds and the literary panache of Zadie Smith, but remains original in its darkly funny perspective ...
