![]() He also befriends Heather ( Adrienne-Joi Johnson), a young woman whose husband, Harold ( Morris Chestnut), is a faithless louse. The Inkwell follows Drew's bumbling pursuit of the insufferably snooty Lauren ( Jada Pinkett). Kenny, a former Black Panther, and Spencer argue furiously about racial issues. Drew's Aunt Frances ( Vanessa Bell Calloway) and her husband, Spencer ( Glynn Turman), are conservatives whose walls are plastered with pictures of Republican dignitaries such as Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan (who they keep saying will become president someday). The visit is also the occasion of some bitter family strife. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Martha's Vineyard, Drew is thrown into an affluent, party-loving black society that congregates on a beach known as the Inkwell. They also fear that a fire he accidentally set in the family garage foreshadows a future as an arsonist. His favorite companion is a doll, in which he names Iago (after the character in the Shakespeare classic Othello), with which he engages in animated conversations. Drew's parents, Kenny ( Joe Morton) and Brenda ( Suzzanne Douglass), worry that their son is emotionally disturbed. Set in the summer of 1976, the film follows the adventures of Drew Tate ( Larenz Tate), a 16-year-old from upstate New York, when he and his family spend two weeks with affluent relatives on Martha's Vineyard.
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