Power Book II: Ghost had the internet in a frenzy when Diana did a Mike and aired everyone’s business out during their family dinner. While her situation is definitely top-tier crazy it is just one of the many crazy tv and movie dinner scenes.
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Check them all out below.
Why Did I Get Married
In the future, no one should make Mike the keeper of secrets.
Stream: Hulu, Pluto TV, Tubi, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video
Almost Christmas
Nobody needs Grandma Cheryl to come to dinner so please stay faithful. And if you are going to cheat, don’t cheat with a “dumb b*tch”
Stream: Rent or own on VOD
Meet The Browns
“What about our momma”…”Nasty hoe” — When you find out your father was a pimp and all the “nice” women were his hoes.
Stream: Prime
Empire
Honestly, when did the Lyon family ever have a normal dinner? So we’re just going to start with the first one because Cookie sure knows how to make an entrance.
Stream: Hulu
Dysfunctional Friends
It was a whole lot of chicken with a side of everyone’s business served at dinner.
Stream: Sling TV, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video
Django Unchained
There was a slave’s skull examined, smeared blood on one’s face, and overt racism. It doesn’t get any more disgusting than that.
Stream: Netflix, fuboTV
Nutty Professor
While this was funny, I would hate to attend dinner with the klumps and their flatulence.
Stream: Peacock
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Pose
“God may have blessed you with Barbies, a backyard with a pony, a boyfriend named Jake and an unwanted pregnancy that your father paid to terminate so you could go to college and major in being a basic bitch…” –This is a clear example of why you should mind the business that pays you.
Stream: Netflix, FX
Kingdom Come
Don’t cheat on a wife who is dramatic.
Stream: Starz
The Color Purple
“Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!” — When a woman’s fed up. Don’t mess with Cecily.
Stream: Tubi
Master of None
Coming out and then introducing your family to your significant other, can be intense.
Stream: Netflix
Boomerang
“Bang Bang Bang…”
Stream: Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video
Bringing Down The House
Slavery songs and laxatives do not go together.
Stream: Amazon Prime
The Help
It’s not really a dinner scene, but someone’s at the table and there is food present, even if it is food, NO ONE should eat, so we’re including it.
Stream: Rent or own on VOD
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family
What’s done in the dark will come to the light.
Stream: HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video
Dirty Laundry
One thing about Jenifer Lewis, she knows how to make an awkward situation more awkward.
Stream: Rent or own on VOD
House Party 3
“They used to call me jawbone”
Stream: HBO Max
Jumping The Broom
With a future mother-in-law like this, who needs enemies, or whatever the saying is.
Stream: fuboTV, Starz, Pluto TV, Hulu, Sling TV, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video, Philo
Guess Who
It is all fun and games until someone says something too racist.
Stream:
Soul Food
Where there is manipulation, there is fire. And where there is fire, there is money.
Stream: HBO Max, Hulu
The Butler
This is why politics and Sidney Poitier aren’t good dinner conversations.
Stream: Showtime, Showtime Anytime, Hulu, Sling TV, fuboTV, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video
Power Book II: Ghost
Zeke and Cane were definitely worried about the wrong part of the Monet’s secret. (Start video at 13 mins)
Stream: Starz