COMEDY/ Why did Doris, a young and beautiful African-American, pretended that her father, who is a hot-dog vendor in New-York city, is a Pasteur and a Reverend?/……
Synopsis
The neighborhood of Harlem, New-York
At this day, a young and pretty single Doris (25 years old) returns from her vacation in California and announces to her parents, the exuberant Daisy (50 years old) and the grumpy but canning Harry (60 years old), that she met a young man over there (Ricky, 30 years old) and that they are planning to move in together and are greatly in love.
As we can imagine, there will be talk of marriage in this story and that will not be a problem because all of the characters are from African-American origin.
Yet, a problem will arise when the social status of the two families will be discussed between mother and daughter.
…and from then onwards things are going to get complicated…
Because the ravishing Doris, impressed by the position of her future father-in-law, a respected cardiologist in Los-Angeles, did not dare to admit that her parents own a small snack-bar in the popular neighborhood of Harlem.
She is going to lie and pretend that her father is a …Pasteur Reverend and the leader of his community.
Entangled in this lie she is trying, with the help of her mother and their Latino neighbor Dolores (35 years old good natured woman), to convince her poor, grumpy father to disguise himself as a Reverend. All this because her future in-laws have decided to come up from California, to participate in their son’s request for her hand in marriage.
After the anger has receded, her father, although perplexed by the idea of impersonating a reverend, decides to go along with it.
He is going to insist on one thing: that his two friends, who are regulars in his bar, Ahmet (55 years old) a Pakistani Muslim who is a taxi driver and David (45 years old) a fellow small business owner of Jewish origins, will both be present in order to support him.
And in order to have a religious ambiance, David will disguise himself as an Orthodox Rabi and Ahmet as an Imam.
And so this is the house, with its three “rogues”, who have taken upon themselves religious roles that will receive the future son-in-law with his family.
This will be a very comic situation for this brave man, with his accomplices, who are going to pass as men of faith and are going to surprise everyone, including the important Professor of medicine and his wife.
They are going, therefore, to make us dive into this equivocal situation that will never be embarrassing, ridicules or biased.
…And so appears a real theatrical success story…
Are our false religious men going to be discovered…and under what circumstances?
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