Waiting to Exhale

Starring:Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines, Dennis Haysbert, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Beach, Leon, Wendell Pierce, Donald Faison, Jeffrey D. Sams, Jazz Raycole, Brandon Hammond, Kenya Moore, Lamont Johnson (II), Wren T. Brown, Theo, Ken Love, Graham Galloway
Director: Forest Whitaker
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett star in this funny and touching film about four women who find strength through their rare and special relationship. Savannah, Bernadine, Robin and Gloria are all searching for the Real Thing: true love. Bernadine thought she had it, until her husband left her for another woman. Savannah and Robin are successful in business but their love lives are bankrupt. And divorcee Gloria is getting back in the game by flirting with her new, very eligible neighbor. Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, and featuring the #1 smash hit "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," "Waiting to Exhale" is the film you and your friends have been waiting for! Original score by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.

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Based on a novel by Terry McMillan, this weepy melodrama about four African American women and the men who wronged them became an instant cultural phenomenon when it was released back in 1995. It's easy to see why Exhale struck a nerve: the movie boasts an attractive cast of African American actresses and personalities, including Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and Lela Rochon. Unfortunately, though, Exhale sags under the weight of its soapy, crisis of the week plotting and relentlessly cheery "you go, girl!" optimism. And African American men, cast here as insensitive lovers and pigheaded materialists, get the very short end of the feminist stick. Perhaps moviegoers were simply responding to the brilliant soundtrack by R&B superstar Babyface, who provided the movie's only real groove. --Ethan Brown

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Starring: Whitney Houston , Angela Bassett , Loretta Devine , Lela Rochon , and Gregory Hines
Director: Forest Whitaker , George Tillman Jr. , and Kevin Rodney Sullivan
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Release Date: 2002-10-15

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Disc 1: Soul Food Disc 2: How Stella Got Her Groove Back Disc 3: Waiting to Exhale

It's a Love Thang Boxset (Brown Sugar / How Stella Got Her Groove Back / Waiting to Exhale)

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Starring: Whitney Houston , Angela Bassett , Loretta Devine , Lela Rochon , and Gregory Hines
Director: Forest Whitaker , Rick Famuyiwa , and Kevin Rodney Sullivan
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Brown Sugar: One of 2002's most underrated films, Brown Sugar offers more than you'd expect from a conventional romantic comedy. The love story between Dre (Taye Diggs) and Sidney (Sanaa Lathan) is the least interesting part of the movie; the costars have delightful chemistry, but their hookup is a given. What's refreshing is the way the story draws a parallel between Dre and Sidney's longtime friendship (they meet as kids in a 1984 flashback) and the evolution of hip-hop music from urban roots to dubious mainstream acceptance. Dre's a disillusioned producer at pop-fueled Millennium Records, married to a beauty (Nicole Ari Parker) who cheats while embracing her coveted status quo. Editor of an influential music magazine, Sidney's tentatively engaged to a basketball star (Boris Kodjoe), but these loves are obstacles, and Dre and Sidney are meant for each other. In bringing them together, Brown Sugar allows for human mistakes, intelligent solutions, and the kind of three-dimensional behavior that romantic comedies typically don't provide. --Jeff Shannon

How Stella Got Her Groove Back: Based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, How Stella Got Her Groove Back stars Angela Bassett as a 40-year-old, Manhattan stock trader and single mom whose static life gets a jolt during a vacation with her pal (Whoopi Goldberg) in Jamaica. Sparks fly when Bassett meets a 20-year-old stud (Taye Diggs) who has an ambivalent career path but a great body and lots of sexual energy to burn. After some prodding by Goldberg's warm-funny secondary character, Bassett gets it on with the fellow--and proceeds to worry about what she's doing with a man half her age. The film is most enjoyable in its sunny, exotic early scenes and becomes more formulaic once the unlikely couple transports their will-we-stay-together-or-won't-we tensions back to the Big Apple. But director Kevin Rodney Sullivan goes out of his way to make a movie unabashedly thick with fantasy and wish-fulfillment for female audiences (it's Diggs who reveals a lot more flesh than the regal Bassett). This is a Saturday-night movie all around. --Tom Keogh

Waiting to Exhale: Based on a novel by Terry McMillan, this weepy melodrama about four African American women and the men who wronged them became an instant cultural phenomenon when it was released back in 1995. It's easy to see why Exhale struck a nerve: the movie boasts an attractive cast of African American actresses and personalities, including Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and Lela Rochon. Unfortunately, though, Exhale sags under the weight of its soapy, crisis of the week plotting and relentlessly cheery "you go, girl!" optimism. And African American men, cast here as insensitive lovers and pigheaded materialists, get the very short end of the feminist stick. Perhaps moviegoers were simply responding to the brilliant soundtrack by R&B superstar Babyface, who provided the movie's only real groove. --Ethan Brown

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Starring: Whitney Houston , Angela Bassett , Loretta Devine , Lela Rochon , and Gregory Hines
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Starring: Whitney Houston , Angela Bassett , Loretta Devine , Lela Rochon , and Gregory Hines
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Charlie Rose with Stuart Stevens; Terry McMillan; Joe Queenan; Rob Weisbach (April 29, 1996)

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The recent trend in the media has been criticism of the Dole campaign. The campaign is being called "The Big Funk" by some. Tonight, Stuart Stevens, media advisor to Senator Dole, defends the candidate against charges that the campaign has stalled. Then, author Terry McMillan's book, Waiting to Exhale, and the movie that followed were major successes among African American women and the country at large. Her latest book is called How Stella Got Her Groove Back and it explores what happens when a woman finds love with a man half her age. Also, while writing film criticism for Rolling Stone, Movie Line, and The Washington Post Joe Queenan decided to make a movie for $6,998. He chronicles the ordeal of making a low budget, independent film in his book, The Unkindest Cut: How a hatchet man critic made his own $7,000 movie and put it all on his credit card. Finally, Rob Weisbach is a 30 year old editor at William Morrow and his clients include Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser and Ellen DeGeneres. He talks to Charlie about his success in the publishing world.

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First, an interview with the man Times film critics describe as "the resident madman of the movies." Terry Gilliam has been behind such films as Monty Python's Flying Circus, Time Bandits and Brazil and he talks to Charlie about his first project since 1991, Twelve Monkeys, which stars Bruce Willis. Then, Jewell Jackson McCabe, president of her own management consulting firm, and Thelma Golden, a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, talk to Charlie about the popularity of the new film, Waiting to Exhale. Finally, John Elderfield, curator at Large at the Museum of Modern Art, and former editor of Art Forum magazine Joseph Masheck discuss artist Piet Mondrian. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is currently exhibiting the first major Mondrian retrospective in more than 20 years.

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The Republican convention in 1992 was characterized by tough rhetoric about cultural wars in the United States and some feel it contributed to George Bush's defeat in the general election. Now some Republicans fear that abortion may be a divisive issue in the 1996 election. Here to debate the issue are Tanya Melich, author of The Republican War Against Women: An insider's report from behind the lines and Arianna Huffington, host of Beat the Press. Then, choreographer and artistic director of The New York City Ballet, Peter Martins. He is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen with whom he is collaborating on a homage to their mentors, George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky. Finally, an interview with filmmaker Forest Whitaker. Whitaker has previously been known for his acting -- he won Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of jazz great Charlie Parker -- but now everyone is talking about his work on the film Waiting to Exhale.

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First, Academy Award nominee Kevin Spacey discusses his role in "The Usual Suspects." Then, Gabriel Byrne discusses his role in "The Usual Suspects" and his book, "Pictures in My Head." Finally, Forest Whitake discusses his involvement with "Waiting to Exhale."

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