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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780783118338 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 0783118333 Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 19, 2001 Running Time: 116 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: December 09, 2000 Sales Rank: 6356 MPN: HBOD91777D
Description: A construction worker meets an aspiring singer;songwriter. He dreams of his own business; she dreams of fame. As they face the challenges of their chosen paths, they discover together that it's easy to build an affair...and hard to make it last.
DVD Features: Audio Commentary Biographies DVD ROM Features Deleted Scenes Documentary Featurette Filmographies Interactive Menus Multiple video angles
Amazon.com: He's a semi-employed construction worker and she's a music teacher with ambitions for a singing career. But when they meet at her Brooklyn brownstone their socio-economic differences melt away--or do they? This is the question that drives this 112-minute HBO movie based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel. Zora wears fabulous clothes, decorates her hardwood-floored apartment with unusual furniture, and dines with her girlfriends at chichi restaurants, while Franklin can't even make regular child-support payments to his estranged wife. She's college educated; he doesn't have his GED. Sanaa Lathan (Love and Basketball) gives Zora dignity and grace throughout the film, while Wesley Snipe's Franklin starts out with those qualities but eventually degenerates into sullenness. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball) starts out strong by making Brooklyn a third vibrant character and creating fun takes on the awkward events in every couple's early stages--meeting the friends, dining with the parents. But she loses her way a bit in the middle and seems to rush the end. With much of the transitional material of the book missing in the movie, female viewers may find the ending tough to swallow. The film is rated R for language, brief nudity (specifically of coproducer Snipes's rear quarters), and sexual content. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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Rating: - Sanaa
This product was in great condition and the shipping was fast. Would recommend Amazon for future puruchaes. Great customer service.
Rating: - Such A Realistic Movie
This one will definitely hit home for alot of ladies. It shows how we settle or "compromise" little things, which eventually become big problems. It also shows that sometimes love is 'inconvenient' and ... Read More
Rating: - Moral of the movie is what you settle for in the beginning.............
Moral of the movie is what you settle for in the beginning of a relationship is what your life will be. Truthfully both Sanaa & Wesley were guilty of concealing very important information that could ... Read More
Rating: - the book was better
i liked this movie, but i enjoyed the book alot more. they both played their roles really well, but it was kind of boring at times to me.
Rating: - This is may favorite movie.
this movie is about a woman who made mistaks in her younger life and begin a newlife. she start off by moving in new house and finding a good job to support her(a teacher). also she is a singer on the side.she ... Read More
- Sanaa
- the book was better