Product Description

Whitney 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26326 in DVD
• Brand: HOUSTON,WHITNEY
• Released on: 2001-03-06
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 127 minutes

Amazon.com
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

From The New Yorker
The film version of Terry McMillan's best-selling novel, with a screenplay by McMillan and Ronald Bass, is a pile of the purest tripe. The central quartet of female friends, played by Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon, spend their lives in bonding and mutual counselling; their approach to men swivels between sharklike aggression and Bambi-eyed yearning. The director, Forest Whitaker, appears to be at the mercy of this confusion, switching tones in the middle of scenes and drawing cartoon reactions from his performers. Only Houston emerges with any credit: she gets to swing her stuff on the soundtrack, which is everything the picture isn't-sultry, creamy, and quick about its business. -Anthony Lane
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