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Waiting to Exhale
This story focused on the family and careers of African American women who lodge at suburbia. It shows how they manage to create a connection with each other by discussing the inadequacies of their love lives.
8 March 1962, New York City, New York, USA
1 September 1966, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
August 21, 1956 in McKinney, Collin County, Texas, USA
22 June 1974, New York City, New York, USA
4 March 1957, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
6 February 1984, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
26 April 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark
8 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
18 July 1941, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 April 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 October 1963, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
11 June 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 July 1961, USA
17 April 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 January 1971, Detroit, Michigan, USA
31 July 1962, Orlando, Florida, USA
9 August 1963, Newark, New Jersey, USA
14 February 1946, New York City, New York, USA
August 29, 2002
Offers a winning portrait of sassy black sister solidarity.
January 01, 2000
Four main female characters trudging through a movie's worth of similar repeated blunders adds up to one scary truckload of drama.
April 17, 2002
Is there a woman alive who hasn't demanded an explanation from the Almighty about the losers that she keeps getting?
September 19, 2006
Stylish but shallow melodrama, based on McMillan's best-seller.
June 05, 2002
There are some humorous observations, irrefutable truths and good performances that make this movie worthwhile to those in a man-bashing mindframe.
January 01, 2000
For all the pleasure there is in seeing effective, great-looking black women grappling with major life issues on screen, Waiting to Exhale is an uneven piece.
December 21, 2004
Whitney Houston's alleged dramatic acting and dull, uninvolving storyline weighs down the virtues of the film.
April 12, 2002
Never escapes the queasy aura of Melrose Place: just another story about beautiful people with small problems.
January 01, 2000
The male-bashing taken to an extreme in Waiting to Exhale is starting to seem a little like crack for the female psyche, exhilarating in the short term but ultimately crippling and dangerous.
January 01, 2000
With the exception of Bernadine, I never felt anything for the women populating this film, as they failed to capture my interest or sympathy.
January 01, 2000
You want the movie to stomp and rejoice and cry like a fool; instead it meanders and lollygags, occasionally flaring up, then sputtering again.
February 13, 2001
A pleasant if undemanding piece of work that is diverting to sit through though it won't stand up to any kind of rigorous examination.
