Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Clarice Taylor
as Mrs. Brooks
Leonard Jackson
as Mr. Brooks
Virginia Capers
as Ruby
Glynn Turman
as Gideon
Dick Anthony Williams
as Preston
Carl Franklin
as Marvin
Ja'net DuBois
as Stormy Monday
D'Urville Martin
as Booker T.
Godfrey Cambridge
as Godfrey Cambridge
Sonny Jim Gaines
as Sweetmeat
Bonnie Banfield
as Gail
