Jean of the Joneses -- Film Description:
"Writer-director Stella Meghie's Jean of the Joneses is a smart-as-a-whip comedy concerning three generations of vibrant, vociferous, unforgettable women in the Brooklyn-based Jones family. To say that twentysomething writer Jean (Taylour Paige) is at a crossroads would be putting it kindly—she really doesn't know which way she's headed. A vista of unenticing career prospects opens before her, and her latest relationship has just unceremoniously ended. Chronically self-analyzing, she often hangs out with her two aunts, mother, and grandmother Daphne (Michelle Hurst). The women constantly bicker and judge each other's life choices, a routine that's interrupted when the estranged patriarch of the family literally dies on their doorstep. Ray (Mamoudou Athie), the paramedic who takes their 911 call, falls fast for the acerbic Jean. The feeling is more or less mutual, but their potential romance will have to take a back seat to the chaos leading up to the funeral. In a series of sometimes harsh, always-spirited discussions—fuelled by a complex family history, a few drinks, and the occasional toke—the women will do their best to figure themselves out, and to understand each other. [...]"
-- Magali Simard

Source:
"TIFF Film Reference Library" Toronto International Film Festival. https://tiff.net/library.