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- Starring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox
- Summary: An ensemble drama set around the abundant table of Chicago family matriarch Mother Joe, whose extended family revolves around the stabilizing force of her sumptuous Sunday dinners.
- Director: George Tillman Jr
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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90Humor, sentiment and melodrama strike a balance as he brings to life nine major characters and a host of others as well.
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80But if you go in knowing this, the payoff is considerable - the film delivers on its feel-good promise.
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60Echoes of "Waiting To Exhale" are obvious, but this is a more smiley affair altogether, with perhaps a spoonful too much sugar stirred in at times, and emotional development often mixed from the most basic of recipes.
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30It could be a distillation of some unaired black soap opera, so predictable are the plot contrivances--adultery, pregnancy, illness, missing money--and so cartoonishly are the characters drawn.
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