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1999 Directed by Julie Dash
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A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.
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Cast
Alfre Woodard Loretta Devine CCH Pounder Tom Wright Peter Jay Fernandez Megalyn Echikunwoke Afemo Omilami Saycon Sengbloh
DirectorDirector
Julie Dash
WritersWriters
J. California Cooper Ron Stacker Thompson Ashley Tyler Amy Schor Ferris
CinematographyCinematography
Karl Herrmann
Production DesignProduction Design
Pamela B. Warner
ComposerComposer
Stanley Clarke
Costume DesignCostume Design
Sandra Hernandez
Studios
BET TV Starz
Country
USA
Language
English
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Review by Nick ★★★★
Like peanut butter & jelly.
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Review by Marya E. Gates ★★★★
Great performances from the leads (Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine, CCH Pounder; a dream team!). It's a little maudlin at times and hampered by its budget, but you can still feel Dash's magic.
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Review by Jazz ★★★★
I remember watching this as a kid so when I saw it again, I had to rewatch it uninterrupted. They just don't do tv movies justice anymore!
I am very tired and will finish this review in the morning...
This was Alfrie and Loretta's example in a two-hander! I was broken into tears at the plot reveal and was so comforted by the scenes of a small country town where time has stopped. Loretta plays an adult with special needs who just wants to see her favorite cousin and reconnect. Alfrie is a mother on the verge of divorce, 2 daughters, an unsatisfying career who just needs a reset. She wants to visit her cousin and aunt under the guise of "just a visit" when its actually a lot more.
I love the plots exploration of family trauma, memory, unconditional love and overcoming fear.
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Review by Ethan Frederick
My commitment to Julie Dash completism necessitated that I watch this; of her TV work I think it is both her most ambitious and least successful. Ambitious in the sense that it is aiming to be a sweeping portrait of three generations of black womanhood in the South that cuts across two timeliness all while exploring all of Dash's thematic obsessions: motherhood, the weight of a shared history and lineage, classism, familial sacrifice, etc. Least successful because, more so than her other television work that I have seen (nearly all of it now) the limitations of that medium at this time are on full display and those limitations undermine the ambition to the point of making it more of a soap opera. Certainly not uninteresting, but more than anything just made me wish Dash were given the opportunity to make more theatrical movies, or given a Netflix series or something.
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Review by Charlie Herndon
Sometimes you just have to watch the made-for-TV movie that Ron Stacker Thompson wrote for the BET that demonstrates an unsurprisingly flawless textbook knowledge of three-act dramatic and cinematic structure, is ripe with setups and payoffs, and pretty much follows and owns every single hallmark of and stands up as the poster example for how to nail the classical American screenplay.
A sweeping portrait of three generations of African-American women in the South and in the mean time it explores, gender, religion, sex, love, faithfulness, loss of innocence, and trauma, and manages to have like, twelve characters, two timelines, and almost four acts of plot goodness. All of this is crammed into the budgetary restrictions of a made-for-TV production, this is about as “BET movie” as it gets y’all, amazingly so. (Directed, co-written, and starring a cast of almost all African-American women, by the way.)
I enjoyed this greatly.
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Review by lee
i like a melodrama every now n then. loretta devine n alfre woodard are both always so good, n they have great chemistry. can’t help but wonder what this movie would be like if it didn’t have to be a tv movie
