Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 01/22/2002
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 124 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
A surprise Hollywood hit, this film is based on the novel of the same name by
Terry McMillan and centers on four well-to-do African-American women and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed relationship with a man. Robin (
Lela Rochon) is the long-time mistress of Russell (
Leon), who keeps reneging on his promise to leave his wife for her. She dumps him to find a man she can have to herself, but her dates with a reliable but unattractive business partner (
Wendell Pierce) and a drug addict (
Mykelti Williamson) send her back to Russell. Savannah (
Whitney Houston) is a successful television producer who also believes that her married lover Kenneth (
Dennis Haysbert) will leave his wife. Bernadine (
Angela Bassett) is a wealthy woman who abandoned her own career to raise a family. Her husband is now leaving her to marry a white woman. Gloria (
Loretta Devine) is a beauty salon owner and single mother raising a teenage son. After years alone, she falls in love with a new neighbor, Marvin (
Gregory Hines). The women share their stories over lunches and conversations at Gloria's salon.
~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
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