Roscoe Jenkins

Roscoe Steven Jenkins, Jr or by his stage name, Dr. RJ Stevens (born 1967) is the main protagonist/title character of the film and the host of his own show, "The Dr. RJ Stevens Show" later renamed to "The Roscoe Jenkins Show". He is portrayed by Martin Lawrence, as an adult and Reginald Davis, Jr. as a young teenager.

Biography
Roscoe, as a child was always in competetion with his cousin, Clyde Stubbs who moved in with the Jenkins family after his own parents died, and always got laughed at by his sister Betty and beat up by his brother Otis, also Papa Jenkins favors Clyde over Roscoe. Roscoe had a crush on a local girl named Lucinda Allen, until Clyde took her away after reneging on a bet they had made over an obstacle course race, which led Roscoe to leave his home after feeling like a loser. After 9 years, he's started his own talk show, Dr. RJ. Roscoe, started using a stage name, Dr. RJ Stevens, had a son named Jamaal with a former girlfriend, and got engaged to Bianca Kittles, a former Survivor winner. Roscoe also wrote his own book called, "The Team of Me" and which is also a movement preaching self-reliance. Roscoe resents his upbringing and has wanted little to do with his family. However, Jamaal regularly speaks to his grandparents on the phone, and pushes Roscoe to go to their 50th anniversary weekend. Roscoe, Bianca and Jamaal arrive to his hometown of Dry Springs, GA for the first time in 9 years. His family are not impressed with his success in life, and his father gives him a particularly cold reception. To make matters worse, the family are much more excited when Clyde arrives. Clyde is also successful, as the owner of multiple Cadillac dealerships, and Papa is clearly proud of him. Clyde now lives in Atlanta, and so does Lucinda, and she is with him when he arrives at the first dinner. At the family baseball game the next morning, Roscoe hits a foul ball and he accidentally hits Mama in the head with the ball by accident, injuring her and forcing Papa to take her to the doctor. Later, he helps his brother Otis load fish into the bed of his pickup truck, recalling how Otis was once a star football player in high school, and that he could have been a success in life. Otis says he is happy with his life, and constructively calls out Roscoe's parenting of Jamaal. Roscoe then makes fun of Otis' kids for their weight. Roscoe prepares for a fight, but Otis knocks him out with just one punch. As Roscoe is walking home, he encounters Betty and soon picks a fight with her. He puts up a better fight against Betty, but in the end, she beats him up too. When Roscoe finally makes it home, Lucinda is there. She tends to his injuries and he starts to have feelings for Lucinda again and he continues his rivalry with Clyde throughout the weekend. This comes to a head when Papa becomes fed up with their fighting and challenges them to participate in the obstacle course race, recreating a race they had over 20 years before when they were kids. Roscoe and Clyde are competitive to the point that both resort to low actions. Roscoe shoves his niece Callie out of the way, and Clyde shoves other kids out of the way(though Callie is soon able to get revenge by stepping on Roscoe's hands when he falls over, as do his nephew Junior and even Jamaal). Jamaal then takes the lead on the zipline. The race starts to even out at a wall climb just before the finish. Jamaal has trouble climbing the wall, and Roscoe starts to help him, but Bianca yells for him to leave him, because Clyde might beat him. He leaves Jamaal to the horror of the entire family. He climbs over the wall himself. Junior is the first one over the wall, but Roscoe gets over the wall and knocks him down, also knocking down Callie in the process, giving Clyde the lead. In the end, however Roscoe manages to run down Clyde and win the race. But soon after winning the race and leaving his son behind, Roscoe loses the trust of his family for his actions. Roscoe starts bragging about winning the race, and Papa finally confronts him directly. Roscoe responds by demanding some form of credit for his success in life. Papa again dismisses it "What? By winning a child's race or that bullshit show of yours?". Roscoe says he feels like he lost his father when Clyde moved in. Papa says he now understands when Roscoe hasn't come home in 9 years, and walks away, visibly hurt. Clyde extends his hand and says that he never meant to take his place, and that he sees him as a brother. As Roscoe is about to shake Clyde's hand, Bianca stops him. Roscoe decides it's best that they leave. On the drive to the airport, Bianca tries to comfort Roscoe, but then implies that they should not only stage a fake anniversary(with actors playing his family), but to not invite his family to the wedding. Jamaal protests, and Bianca says "This is Team Stevens, and you need to get on board". Jamaal proudly declares himself a Jenkins. Roscoe pretends to agree with Bianca, until they pull up to the airport. After approaching the airport, he dumps Bianca after she insults his family and drives away, untying all her bags from the roof of the rental car. Roscoe turns the car around and he and Jamaal head back to Dry Springs for the actual anniversary banquet. Roscoe and Jamaal return as Clyde is speaking. Clyde breaks into tears when he starts talking about Roscoe. Roscoe suddenly appears with another microphone and gives a heartfelt speech to his family. He apologizes and congratulates his parents. The family applauds him for his speech, signifying that Roscoe has regained the trust of his family. His father also apologizes for driving him away. Roscoe says he meant everything he said, and "the name is Jenkins. Roscoe Steven Jenkins." As the slow dancing starts, Roscoe sees Lucinda and asks her to dance. She accepts happily, and later that night, they make love in Roscoe's childhood bedroom. Later, we see Roscoe has renamed his show's title to The Roscoe Jenkins Show and he interviews his family.

Family

 * Papa Jenkins (father)
 * Mama Jenkins (mother)
 * Betty Jenkins (sister)
 * Otis Jenkins (brother)
 * Reggie Jenkins (cousin)
 * Clyde Stubbs (cousin)
 * Ruthie Jenkins (sister-in-law)
 * Jamaal Jenkins (son)
 * Junior Jenkins (nephew)
 * Callie Jenkins (niece)

Relationships

 * Bianca Kittles (ex-fiancee)
 * Lucinda Allen (girlfriend)