Soul Food

1997 "Every family needs some."
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Released: 26 September 1997 Released
Producted By: Fox 2000 Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond) to pull the family together and put the soul back into the family's weekly gatherings.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
UnowPriceless hyped garbage
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
noodnix I didn't find this movie to be touching, uplifting, or empowering for African-American women (as Oprah so put it years ago). If anything, it just reinforced that stereotype that spurned women (and more specifically African American women) resort to violence and retaliate in such a way that is completely destructive.While I thought that Angela bassett did a wonderful job and the acting on the whole was very good, the whole message fell completely flat for me. I can't believe that women (regardless of race) would see this as a feel-good movie to watch with your gal-pals that bears scrutiny more than once. IT also didn't cast a particularly good image on men either. A hubby who can't seem to keep it in his pants etc. It portrays them as slime for the most part. How on earth this movie got so much attention is beyond me. If anything, I would tell my friends to avoid it. IMO - it would be like telling someone that The English Patient was a beautiful romance story, when in fact all it's doing is glorifying adultery. A message that I just don't care in sending out. This movie falls into that category - the message was awful.
DunnDeeDaGreat Soul Food is one of the best family films ever made. The cast led by Vanessa Williams is superb. Vicva A. Fox and Nia Long are also great as the younger sisters. Micheal Beachmen and Mehki Pffeir are also great. But the real standout is Brandon Hammons who plays Ahmad. He shows great acting talent in his first big role. 10/10.
muser1 I love this movie. I just saw it for the first time and could kick myself for waiting solong. Brandon Hammond is a hoot and Viveca A. Fox was wonderful. It isso nice to see a movie centered around an African-American family thatwasn't about hoods or hip-hop. Every family, black or white orwhatever, can identify with the kinds of problems this family had.There is a poignant, endearing quality to this movie that just appealedto me and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a "feel-good" fixwithout the sweet-as-saccharine quality so many movies have.
kenandraf Touching movie that tries hard but works due to great performances.Nothing original but still very enteraining if you are expecting a family movie.Everything was just adequate and the music was good.Very good casting is the secret of this movie.Not for racists!