Soul Food
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Actor: Mekhi Phifer, Michael Beach, Nia Long, Vanessa Williams (VII), Vivica A. FoxDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Soul Food
Movie Review: My Favorite movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie! This is a movie that I never get tired of because it tells such a compelling story about three sisters struggling with their family issues. The story is mostly narrated by Ahmad who himself is trying to put the family back together after his grandma goes into a coma. All of the actors and actresses give magnificent performances. This movie is definitely worth adding to your personal collection.If you really love this movie then you might enjoy the series, but I personally think the series ruined the whole dynamic of the movie. The famous actors and actresses who created the roles in the movie are not in series and to me that's a negative. I fell in love with just about all of the characters in the movie (except cousin Faith) and was really cheering for them from the beginning to the end, but in the series I just don't care for the characters they are just not the same characters they once were. I believe that they should have just stopped with the movie because there is only so far you can go with Soul Food the series, so I predict and hope that it will end soon because I really think it's messing up the memory of the movie.
Summary of Soul Food
Sunday dinner at Mothers Joe's (Irma P. Hall) is a mouth watering, 40 year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri an bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.Soul Food is the kind of movie that seems to have been blessed throughout its low-budget production, and it's got a quality of warmth and charm that fits perfectly with its authentic drama about a large African-American family in Chicago. Twenty-eight-year-old writer-director George Tillman Jr. drew autobiographical inspiration from his upbringing in Milwaukee, and on a well-spent $6.5 million budget he succeeded where similar films (including Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back) fell short: He depicts his many characters with such depth and sympathy that, by the time they have weathered several family crises, we've come to care and feel for them and the powerful ties that bind them together. As seen through the eyes of Tillman's young alter ego Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), the film primarily focuses on the rivalries and affections that rise and fall among Ahmad's mother (Vivica A. Fox) and her two sisters (Vanessa L. Williams, Nia Long). Through them, and through the weekly Sunday dinners cooked with love by their mother, Big Mama (Irma P. Hall), we witness marital bliss and distress, infidelity, success, failure... in short, the spices of life both bitter and sweet. But when Big Mama falls into a diabetic coma, Ahmad watches as his family begins to fall apart without the stability and love that Big Mama provided with every Sunday meal.
Tillman's touch can be overly nostalgic, melodramatic, and cloyingly sentimental, but never so much that the movie loses its firm grip on reality. As a universal portrait of family life, Soul Food ranks among the very best films of its kind--believable, funny, emotional, and always approaching its characters (well-played by a uniformly excellent cast) with a generous spirit of forgiveness and understanding. As satisfying as one of Big Mama's delicious dinners, Soul Food is the kind of movie that keeps you coming back for more. --Jeff Shannon
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