The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style,...

A pair of con men hide out in a house when they discover the owner will be away for a couple of months and the housesitter can't make it. The owner's relatives show up, so they pretend to be the housesitters.