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DVD : It's a Love Thang Boxset (Brown Sugar / How Stella Got Her Groove Back / Waiting to Exhale)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Mos Def, Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett directed by: Forest Whitaker, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Rick Famuyiwa  List Price: $24.98 Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0024543396659 Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 09, 2007 Running Time: 357 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1995 Sales Rank: 53652 MPN: 2239665 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Includes:Brown SugarThis romantic comedy described as an African-American When Harry Met Sally... centers on a romance between an A&R exec Dre (Diggs) at a hip-hop label and a magazine editor Sidney (Lathan) who have known each other since childhood. (Latifah plays Lathan's best friend. They find themselves drifting towards being more than friends even as Dre is engaged (to Parker) and Sidney starts being wooed by a handsome basketball player (Kodjoe).How Stella Got Her Groove BackStella (Angela Bassett) is a highly successful forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah (Whoopi Goldberg) to take a well deserved first-class vacation to Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island she encounters a strapping young islander Winston Shakespeare (Taye Diggs). His pursuits for her turn into a hot and steamy romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.Waiting To ExhaleWhitney 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.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 024543396659 Manufacturer No: 2239665 Amazon.com: 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 Browse for similar items by category:
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