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7.4/10 • 61

1997-03-141h 48m

ComedyDramaRomance

Get Together. Fall Apart. Start Over.

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

Directors
Theodore Witcher
Writters
Theodore Witcher
Editors
Theodore Witcher, Maysie Hoy

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  1. Larenz Tate

    Larenz Tate

    Darius Lovehall

  2. Nia Long

    Nia Long

    Nina Mosley

  3. Isaiah Washington

    Isaiah Washington

    Savon Garrison

  4. Bill Bellamy

    Bill Bellamy

    Hollywood

  5. Lisa Nicole Carson

    Lisa Nicole Carson

    Josie Nichols

  6. Marie-Françoise Theodore

    Marie-Françoise Theodore

    Tracey Powell

  7. Khalil Kain

    Khalil Kain

    Marvin Cox

  8. Leonard Roberts

    Leonard Roberts

    Eddie Coles

  9. Bernadette Speakes

    Bernadette Speakes

    Sheila Downes

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GenerationofSwine

Jan 14, 2023

6/10

I'm sorry. I heard about it on the radio and decided to give it a watch...but I am sorry, I just don't get it. I kind of want to relate it to movies like 12 Angry Men and other dialogue driven flicks...Fall from I think the same year...but this was just...bland. What you have here are people sitting around talking about sex. You have people walking around talking about their relationship. Before Sunrise did kind of the same thing, but throughout you had the feeling of love that would be lost. This didn't really pull off that emotion. It also didn't pull off the tension in many other dialogue driven movies...and it didn't pull off the humor either. It did, however, develop characters very well, so it gets 3 Stars for great characters. But I just can't give it any more. The characters weren't eccentric enough to be appealing, they were just...normal. Normal would have worked if there was more of a plot, more of a goal. Instead it felt like talking about your relationship with your girlfriend and then relating that conversation with your friends with no real direction and no one really entertaining and abnormal enough to latch onto.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$10,000,000.00
Revenue
$12,782,749.00
Keywords
ex-boyfriendromantic