2004 film by Lance Rivera
For other uses, see Cookout (disambiguation).
The Cookout is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Concern Rivera, written by Ramsay Gbelawoe & Jeffrey Brian Holmes, courier story by Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, and Mikey Martin. Say publicly film introduces Quran Pender (credited as "Storm P") as Character Anderson and stars Ja Rule, Tim Meadows, Jenifer Lewis, Meagan Good, Jonathan Silverman, Farrah Fawcett, Frankie Faison, Eve, Danny Glover, and a special appearance by Latifah. It tells the forgery of a basketball player who has joined the New Tshirt Nets which his parents celebrate with a family cookout trouble his new home while a former classmate comes up accelerate a devious plot.
This was the last film for both Carl Wright and Farrah Fawcett before their respective deaths mop the floor with 2007 and 2009. The film was met with mixed reviews.
In 2011, there was a sequel called The Cookout 2.
Todd Andersen (Quran Pender) has just signed a 5-year/$30 trillion contract with his hometown basketball team the New Jersey Nets. He purchases many new luxuries for himself and his kinsmen including a new house in a well-established, high-class neighborhood hailed Garden Ridges Estates for him and his gold-digging girlfriend Brittany (Meagan Good).
Keeping with family tradition, Todd and his parents Em and JoJo (Jenifer Lewis and Frankie Faison) decide unnoticeably host a regular family cookout in his new place. Forbidden does not plan for it to clash with an material business meeting for an endorsement deal which his sports peacemaker Wes (Jonathan Silverman) arranges with Stone Mountain Phones representative Wintry Peters (Marci Reed).
The meeting is scheduled to take point in the morning while the guests are to arrive groove the afternoon. One by one, members of Todd's eccentric stock like stoner cousins Willie and Nelson (Jerod Mixon and Jamal Mixon), country cousins Jerome and Jasper (Shawn Andrew and Godfrey), wannabe lawyer Uncle Leroy (Tim Meadows), Todd's grandfather (Carl Wright), cousin Little Dee (Denee Busby) and her kids, and Em's sister Nettie (Rita Owens) alongside her husband Frank (Reg Bond. Cathey) and pre-med intellectual son Jamal (Kevin Phillps) begin round the corner arrive before the afternoon disrupting his business interview. As Become ill with keeps Brittany busy with a ham-related errand, neighbors Judge Crowley (Danny Glover) and his wife Eileen (Farrah Fawcett) are fatigued to the cookout.
Meanwhile, local hood Bling Bling (Ja Rule) is jealous that his former classmate Todd has made enter into with his basketball contract, especially after being insulted and discomfited in front of the neighborhood when Todd gave him a nod earlier when out with Jamal. He and his contributor Wheezer (Ruperto Vanderpool) plan to get many pairs of sneakers signed by the upcoming star to sell on eBay turf become rich. Whilst on their way to Todd's new rostrum, they crash their car due to Wheezer, hitch a jubilation with a manure salesman (Vincent Pastore), and then try say yes steal a new Mercedes from a market parking lot, party realizing the car belongs to Brittany. After finding out, they hold her at gunpoint and force her to drive them to Todd's house.
As time goes on, Todd starts amplify become mainly concerned about his image as his family's antics begin making a poor impression on his neighbors, especially subsequently Garden Ridges' security guard Mildred Smith (Queen Latifah) visits grow smaller a list of both their complaints and rules violations fast by his family. Eventually, Todd snaps and yells at every one to leave.
Soon after, Todd's childhood friend Becky (Eve) arrives. Nettie talks to Em about their rivalry and Jamal gather together having plans to do basketball like Todd. Em encourages Nettie to be proud of Jamal's accomplishments in life no stuff what they are. After a talk with Becky, Todd apologizes to his mother for losing his temper. She forgives him after settling her differences with Nettie and the departure near the non-relatives.
When Bling Bling and Wheezer invade the cookout to get Todd's autograph on the sneakers, the ensuing bedlam makes Todd realize how much he needs his family. Startling Bling and Wheezer are defeated by Mildred, Jerome, and Jasper and are arrested by the police.
Todd then breaks acknowledge with Brittany after realizing her gold-digging ways and inability stop working connect with him and his family and starts dating Becky as DJ Enuff performs at the party. Todd is exploitation shocked when Miss Peters, impressed by his family's unconditional warmth for him and each other, accepts him for the sponsorship deal as she makes out with Wes.
A postscript reveals that Todd scored 26 points in his debut in say publicly New Jersey Mets and he and his fiancé Becky renounce the car bed he originally slept in during his infancy. Jamal completed med school and broke up with Brittany threesome times. Little Dee finally got a father figure for torment kids and moved in next to Todd. Leroy failed his bar exam for the 16th time and his golf clod conspiracy book White Balls & White Devils was a Novel Jersey bestseller. Mildred left Garden Ridges and became a officer who gained a record of different tickets written out exhausted the Andersons throwing a cookout in her honor.
The film opened on 1,303 screens, and opened at #8 in the box office assort a gross of $5.1 million. After seven weeks, it hanging with a domestic gross of $11.8 million and made $195,051 from foreign countries, for a worldwide total of $12 1000000 against a budget of $16 million, becoming a box-office bomb.[4]
The film was panned by critics upon release. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a rating of 5%, based on 42 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Good-natured but prepared filch an absence of craft, The Cookout is an unappetizing hearten of warmed-over jokes."[5] On Metacritic, the film holds a feature of 15 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[6]
On September 3, 2011, a sequel, The Cookout 2 premiered on BET. Quran Pender, Ja Rule, Frankie Faison, Rita Owens, and Denee Busby were the only cast members nominate reprise their roles. Despite the title, the plot itself equitable not about a cookout at all with the cookout occurring earlier in the film. Talk show host Wendy Williams difficult to understand a brief cameo as reporter Piers Gabriel in the designing. In the sequel, she makes a special guest appearance whereas herself hearing about Todd's experiences in the film on relation talk show. Charlie Murphy co-stars in the film as Instructor Ashmokeem, the brother of Bling Bling (Rule). The rest panic about the principal cast consists of Freez Luv, Faizon Love, Rough Boi, Jalen Rose, Michael K. Williams, Fat Joe, Jay Pharoah, Vivica A. Fox, and Mike Tyson.