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An ensemble drama set around the abundant table of Chicago family matriarch Mother Joe, whose
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.
Genre(s):
Drama
Comedy
Production:
Fox 2000 Pictures
Runtime:
115 min
Home Release Date:
Jan 22, 2002
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Director:
George Tillman Jr
Writer:
George Tillman Jr
Starring:
Vanessa Williams Vivica A. Fox
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"Director George Tillman Jr.'s screenplay covers an array of events in the characters' lives so replete with drama it could easily be too much, but the movie's humor is vibrant, the sorrow unexploitive, the sexuality character enhancing, and the love heartfelt--and Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone."
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"Humor, 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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"George Tillman says Soul Food is based in part on his own family, and I believe him, because he seems to know the characters so well; by the film's end, so do we."
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"Nothing too fancy or ambitious. Instead, writer-director George Tillman Jr. serves up down-home fare that enriches the heart and leaves you satisfied if stuffed. [26Sep1997 Pg.06.D]"
"But it's also old-fashioned family drama that invites audience participation ("Don't you go making eyes at your cousin's husband, you little slut!"), and is surprisingly satisfying, in a gooey kind of way -- like macaroni and cheese or peach cobbler, perhaps."
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"It 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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