
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.

as Mrs. Brooks

as Mr. Brooks

as Ruby

as Gideon

as Preston

as Marvin

as Stormy Monday

as Booker T.

as Godfrey Cambridge

as Sweetmeat

as Gail

as Rolls Royce

as Fun Loving

as Barber Shop Patron (uncredited)