Soul Food

Starring:Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach, Mekhi Phifer, Brandon Hammond, Jeffrey D. Sams, Gina Ravera, Irma P. Hall, Carl Wright, Mel Jackson, Morgan MÃ©chelle Smith, John M. Watson Sr., M.T. Alexander, Lawrence Petty, Marcia Wright, Bernard Mixon, Hamp Clemons, Theron TouchÃ© Lykes, Martell Hill Edmond
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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.

Customer Reviews:

Bring on More Light and Love!!!.......2007-07-05

I am so excited to have this second season available. It is unfortunate that it took this long, but sometimes good things have to come in their own time. The first season has brought many thoughtful, reflective, and inspirational moments into my space. Yes, periodically I have to watch it to get my fix on just how valuable that program was to a lot of viewers. Universal themes handled with savvy, never pretending that we are more than human after all. Stories of a continuing sereis that capture the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful of what it means to be human. Human foibles are what they are, but they are not the end of the world. Soul Food helped us to see that we do make it through even the tough times.

Welcome Season Two!!! I've nearly worn Season One to shreds. I've been waiting patiently for your arrival. I know what you brought before and anticipate that I will be equally delighted as the circle continues. I hope Seasons 3-5 will closely follow the release of this season. Thanks to all the people who bothered to petition for the release of this set.

At Last, At Last , At Last .......2007-07-02

This has been a vey long wait to get 1 of the best TV dramas released on
DVD. I am very happy that the price on the boxset is much less then season one. Let's support this great series so that maybe Paramount will release the following seasons in a swift manner

Hooray!!!!.......2007-06-26

I am so happy ! I just ordered my copy.

Now I have to get on the phone and plan a soul food party with my Homies.

The Greatest Show for Our Souls.......2007-06-22

When Soul Food aired back 7 years ago- I was so proud to see us reflected positively and not sterotypical. I am so thankful to the fans who petitioned Showtime to release the highly anticipated Season 2!!! For a long time I had been thinking the same thing like "when are they going to release season 2? Well I'm glad someone stepped up and made a difference in our viewing rights! After all we have kept the season alive during its peak and post its departure.. I'm ordering mine! Assalam Malakum...

Finally.................2007-06-15

Our patience has finally paid off...............they are releasing season two. It's been a hellified long wait, but thankfully it's ending. I sure hope it doesn't take as long for the release of the other seasons.

This was really a great show. I watch the re-runs on BET and get so caught up as if it's my first time and I don't know how it'll end.

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SOUL FOOD-1st Season
I WANT TO SEE MORE!!!
Real issues
I am ready for the other seasons.
Soul Food Feeds Your Hunger for Good Television

Soul Food - The Complete First Season
Director: Diane Wynter , Kevin Arkadie , Clark Johnson , Oz Scott , and LeVar Burton
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ASIN: B000094J5Z
Release Date: 2003-06-24

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Soul Food, the richly emotional ongoing tale of three African American sisters and the men in their lives, has no obvious hook as far as the setting or the characters' jobs; it's just well-written, well-acted, and willing to let its characters be difficult, troubled, and pushy, as well as sexy, passionate, and caring--in other words, vividly real. Teri (Nicole Ari Parker), a divorced lawyer and demanding control freak, begins a relationship with Damon (Boris Kodjoe), a much younger delivery guy who's deliberately avoided the kind of high-pressure career path that Teri values. Maxine (Vanessa Williams) has three kids by Kenny (Rockmond Dunbar), including 12-year-old Ahmad (Aaron Meeks), who narrates portions of the show, and whose growing independence often leads to clashes with his strong-minded mother. Bird (Malinda Williams), a beautician, struggles to find trust with her ex-con husband Lem (Darrin Dewitt Henson), whose drive to support his family leads him down some dangerous paths.

The opening episode centers around the birth of Bird's first child, placing family ties at the core of the series--but Soul Food explores a broad spectrum of storylines, delving into class, crime, religion, sex, and more, rarely making race a central concern, yet never ignoring the role race plays in these people's lives. The creators of Soul Food have a keen eye for contrasting innocence (such as Ahmad trying to figure out how to use a condom) and danger (Lem slipping back into the criminal life). Though the show can be melodramatic (one episode features a hostage crisis in Bird's salon), more often it's just concerned with everyday events, made compelling by the charisma of the cast and the propulsive, well-observed writing and directing. The first season of Soul Food is simply a feast, 20 episodes of juicy, enjoyable television. --Bret Fetzer

Description

Focusing on a family full of love, disagreements and a fair amount of drama, SOUL FOOD: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON follows the lives of Teri Joseph (Parker), the oldest sister and a successful lawyer who is overwhelmed by her own success, Maxine (Vanessa Williams), the middle sister who is a stay-at-home mom aching for something more, and Bird (Malinda Williams), the youngest sister and hairdresser who is married to an ex-con who can't seem to get away from his past. All in all a fairly typical American family with issues just like everyone else: they bicker over small problems, and then pull together when confronted by a big crisis which they must work together to overcome.

Customer Reviews:

SOUL FOOD-1st Season.......2007-02-04

This compilation embodies everything I enjoy in a movie: family, relationships, beautiful people and just "keeping it real" storylines. I subscribed to Showtime just so I can capture Soul Food every week. I've had nothing to replace the void that its entertainment filled. I've looked for subsequent seasons to come to DVD for the last 3 years; disappointing when you see Green Acres or Family Ties end up on DVD's but can't seem to get something we can relate to (modern day). I've even sent a letter to Paramount--to no avail. I'm sure when I stop looking the other seasons will soon show up on DVD. CAN'T WAIT!!!

I WANT TO SEE MORE!!!.......2007-01-27

I really enjoyed the Soul Food- First Season. Some of the episodes I saw on the 5 discs, I hadn't seen before. It was great to catch up on what I had missed.By the time I got to the last disc, I was upset because I knew there were no more discs to watch. I HOPE YOU GUYS WILL BE COMING OUT WITH THE "COMPLETE SECOND SEASON". You definitely have a buyer here!

Real issues.......2007-01-26

Very reflective of what families deal with everyday. Very good show, I'm looking forward to the other seasons decoming available on DVD.

I am ready for the other seasons........2007-01-03

I never watched watched it when it came on showtime. It deals with real family issues which I greatly appreciate.

Soul Food Feeds Your Hunger for Good Television.......2006-12-29

I used to watch this show religiously on Showtime. Unfortunately, as with most cable series, it was complete after four (thought it was five?) seasons. They used to run the show twice a week. The superior cast, excellent script, and production quality were phenomenal. I related to the show because it reminded me so much of me and my two sisters. It was also refreshing to watch a show about an African-American family that was positive and did not play-off ignorant stereotypes; this was, hands-down, better than Friends and when the series ended (the same year Friends did), there was no hoopla. Paramount, do all of us fans across the globe a favor---release the rest of the seasons on DVD! I get my fix on BET, but sometimes the show is not on for whatever reason.

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Food For The Soul
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Soul Food
Starring: Vanessa Williams (VII) , Vivica A. Fox , Nia Long , Michael Beach , and Mekhi Phifer
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B000059HAB
Release Date: 2001-04-03

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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.

Description

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.

Customer Reviews:

Food For The Soul.......2007-02-28

Excellent movie that shows how families should be and how most African American families really are. Big Mama's are always the most important component to a family. Definitely a collector's item.

It's about the Food.......2007-01-26

I have cerebral palsy, and for the last few months I have had my first African American aide. He laughs at me because nearly all of the films in my collecttion are dark, violent, and depressing. So, he made me watch "Soul Food" and the best part of the movie is the insight it brought to me with regard to his cooking. (I have hardly been to a restaurant since his arrival.) I know nothing about cooking, and that is probably a good thing because he says he wouldn't share his his "secrets" anyway. Though I HAVE noticed that he has NEVER, EVER used a measuring cup. (something that is reflected in this film.) Also, before he came I avoided green beans like the plague. (I'm sure many a Black person has knowingly mocked the rubbery, limp, God-awful things we White people call green beans. White children drench these abominations in ketchup and even then have to be forced to eat them a gunpoint...) However, there is a scene in "Soul Food" in which a child excitedly recites the menu that includes green beans with his smile intact, and there is not a ketchup bottle in sight. (I now have "string beans" with every meal.) I feel free to include these things in a review because it seesms to me that "Soul Food" is largely true to it's title, the movie is ABOUT THE FOOD and it's apparently unifying power, it's also about the kind of food we deprived and deathly bland White Northern dwellers have been missing. (My aide has informed me that a select group of White Southerners have been made honorary initiates into the art.) So, if there are any people out there who have stumbled upon a sampling of Soul Food and are wondering how it's done, this movie will give you a precious glimpse.....

Soul Food.......2006-04-02

This is such a good family movie! It has all the trials and tribulations that people go thru and how they can over come them if they work at it. The movie has a lot of good actors in it that really brought it together, this really is one of my fav. movies of all time. It made me wish that I had a family so close as they did, getting together to have dinners. Not just on holidays but every Sunday.
It's the kind of movie that makes you want to change the "bad" things in your life.

Big Sunday dinners with the whole family!.......2005-12-22

I wish my whole family,aunts,uncles,cousins,yada,yada,yada,would do that on Sundays,even if my grandparents are dead. Big Mama's brother was alive,and he didn't like McDonalds[Everyone loves McDonalds!] He loved only homecooked soul food.I saw this in my class on semester with Nobody's Fool,Home For The Holidays,The Joy Luck Club,Soul Food,Bastard Out Of Carolina,and The Burning Bed. Big Mama didn't want to have her leg or arm amputated,so it killed her.

A Collection of Cliches.......2005-07-15

I enjoyed the performances of the actresses and actors in this film, in particular the subdued fury of Vanessa L. Williams. However I think such good acting goes to waste in this film that simply repeats so many "heart of gold/can't win for tryin'/unfaithful husband" cliches in the way African American life is portrayed on film.

I would have enjoyed this film more if Big Mama had been a more active, integral part of the film, rather than having her exit as she did.

This film was predictable to the point of being boring, although it was beautifully filmed.

Movies With Soul Collection (How Stella Got Her Groove Back / Waiting to Exhale / Soul Food)

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Movies With Soul Collection (How Stella Got Her Groove Back / Waiting to Exhale / Soul Food)
Starring: Whitney Houston , Angela Bassett , Loretta Devine , Lela Rochon , and Gregory Hines
Director: Forest Whitaker , George Tillman Jr. , and Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B00006G8J2
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

Customer Reviews:

The Best Deal Ever.......2007-03-18

I really enjoyed this purchase these are three of my favorite movies that I did not own on dvd. They really help me alot when I need to get things back into perspective when my life is going a little aray.

Excellent Movies.......2004-06-24

GREAT movies. All three are very entertaining and uplifting. I can watch them over and over again and never get tired of them. They are all about LOVE, FAMILY & FRIENDSHIP.

Wonderful.......2003-07-15

These movies are great! The thing i like the most about them is that you can watch them over and over and not get tired. If you don't have this package you should get it but i will warn you they will be more enjoyable for women.

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Excellent!!!

Food for the Spirit
Starring: Smokey Robinson
Manufacturer: Liquid 8
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Release Date: 2004-04-20

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FOOD FOR THE SPIRIT (ROBINSON,SMOKEY)

Customer Reviews:

Excellent!!! .......2007-04-05

I highly recommend buying this DVD because Smokey gives an indepth insight for the songs on his "Food for the Spirit" CD. He makes it perfectly clear that it is NOT a Gospel CD, but an inspirational CD which is ....'food for the spirit'....just as the title suggests. In addition, this DVD includes a few songs from the CD and a booklet with the lyrics. Based on a few of the CD reviews written here on Amazon, those people totally missed the point which was to LISTEN to the message. This is not an 'OOO Baby, Baby' CD nor was it written as a 'shake your booty' CD. In my opinion, Smokey did just what he set out to do on "Food for the Spirit" which was to give a spiritual message in his own musical style. He says that he purposely steered away from making it a Gospel CD. This is very evident if you listen to the short clips here on Amazon. Gospel is a Shirly Ceasar or Dixie Hummbird's sound. This is the one and only Smokey Robinson sound.

I found this DVD to be very inspiring and a must have.

Country in the City: How to Cook Soul Food

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Country in the City: How to Cook Soul Food

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Soul Food / How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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Soul Food / How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Starring: Angela Bassett , Taye Diggs , Whoopi Goldberg , Regina King , and Suzzanne Douglass
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan , and George Tillman Jr.
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ASIN: B0000C2ITE
Release Date: 2005-08-09

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Customer Reviews:

Food For The Soul.......2007-02-28

Excellent movie that shows how families should be and how most African American families really are. Big Mama's are always the most important component to a family. Definitely a collector's item.

It's about the Food.......2007-01-26

Soul Food.......2006-04-02

Big Sunday dinners with the whole family!.......2005-12-22

A Collection of Cliches.......2005-07-15

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Soul Food/How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Starring: Angela Bassett , Taye Diggs , Whoopi Goldberg , Regina King , and Suzzanne Douglass
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Puerto Rican Cuchifritos Soul Food Cuchifrito Shack

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Puerto Rican Cuchifritos Soul Food Cuchifrito Shack

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