Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with men.Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with men.Based on Terry McMillan's novel, this film follows four very different African-American women and their relationships with men.
- Awards
- 9 wins & 10 nominations
Donald Faison
- Tarik
- (as Donald Adeosun Faison)
Theo Mizuhara
- On Air D.J.
- (as Theo)
Storyline
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- TriviaDuring the car burning scene, Angela Bassett's monologue was completely improvised.
- GoofsGloria's right earring appears and disappears during her conversation with her ex-husband about their son.
- Quotes
Bernadine Harris: I give you 11 fucking years of my life and you're telling me you're leaving me for a white woman?
John Harris, Sr.: Would it help if she was black?
Bernadine Harris: No. It would help if you were black.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Whitney Houston: Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (1995)
- SoundtracksExhale (Shoop Shoop)
Performed by Whitney Houston
Written by Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds (as Babyface)
Produced by Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds (as Babyface) for Ecaf Productions
Whitney Houston appears courtesy of Arista Records, Inc.
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Good movie
This was a good movie, even though I'm not the target audience. It's nice to see that black women had a movie about them, and thanks to the star power of Whitney Houston it became no.1 and was a big hit. I am actually tired of reading little comments saying that Whitney isn't that good of an actress because all of those comments are based on the fact that she's a singer. If she wasn't a famous singer, nobody would say anything bad about her acting. IMO, she acted very well just like in all her movies, she's not an oscar caliber actress (very few are) but she definitely has screen presence, charisma and gets the job done. Stop hating her because she's a singer, unlike Madonna or Mariah, Whitney at least did some quality work with some quality people, and she hasn't had flops & horrible movies.
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Box office
- Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $67,052,156
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,126,927
- Dec 25, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $81,452,156
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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