Poignant snap of the life of a family in 1970s NYC, almost unbelievably so. Claudine is a single mom supporting six children with her position as a maid in a well-tended burb and as a welfare recipient. Every time the welfare calls the entire family flips the apartment décor ala The Sting. She meets Roop, a charismatic garbage man who loves her but shuns responsibility. I love this great flick; it's got so much. "Curtis Mayfield wrote and produced the film's score and soundtrack, the vocals for which are performed by Gladys Knight & the Pips." That sentence I had to lift verbatim from Wikipedia because it says so much.