Waiting to Exhale . Tucson Weekly . 01-04-96

Waiting to Exhale

DIRECTED BY: Forest Whitaker

REVIEWED: 01-04-96

The story of four African American women looking for Mr. Right and finding, for the most part, Mr. Already Married. This movie starts out with some gleeful, man-bashing humor, then tapers out into sentimental overkill. Though the story is ostensibly about women learning to feel complete by themselves, the movie is actually obsessed with men, man-hunting, looking pretty for men, and how great it is to have a man around, if you're a woman. Angela Bassett gets stuck playing a completely unsympathetic character, while Whitney Huston is saddled with the role of the boring good girl. Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon are quite good though, and this movie gets bonus points for portraying affluent, African American women in Arizona.

--Stacey Richter

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