Soul Food

Name: Soul Food
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 26, 1997
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox

1997

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: September 26, 1997 | TV-MA

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

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 115 min

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Lisa Alspector

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. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Humor, sentiment and melodrama strike a balance as he brings to life nine major characters and a host of others as well. Read full review

Roger Ebert

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. Read full review

Susan Wloszczyna

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]

Peter Stack

The result is a lovely wash of humanity, served with affection. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

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. Read full review

Richard Corliss

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. Read full review

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