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Waiting to Exhale
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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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
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Waiting to Exhale
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User Comments About Waiting to Exhale
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Love this movie, i like the issues it shows women deal with. A great sit and watch with your girlfriends movie. Husbands leaving their wifes, women who love the men they can't have and other issues.
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"I closed my eyes and I exhaled."
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Wait, where is the option for 10 stars. That information totally infuriates her and she really does some horrible things to his personal belongings. The man she likes the most is married. The men she dates in this film love her and leave her, that it, until she builds up some courage to tell them how she feels. I love this film. In the beginning of the motion picture, though, he abruptly informs her that he is leaving her for another woman.
5 stars. Though it seems to be easier for women to watch, I feel that everyone can get some laughter and entertainment from it. She is still attracted to his father, and when he comes to visit, she tries to be intimate with him, until he tells her that he is gay. Robin (the beautiful Lela Rochon) is extremely gullible when it comes to men.
Savannah (played by Whitney Houston) keeps ending up with men who use her for sex. The viewer can't help but feel sorry for her because the pain she was experiencing was written all over her face throughout the film.
Each woman experiences her share of problems with the opposite sex, but through it all, they depend heavily on one another to help them through the most bleak of times. She and her husband, John, have been married for eleven years and have two children.
However, she finds love with her new next door neighbor. I cannot get enough of it.
What has proven to be the most captivating story is that of Bernie (Angela Bassett did an excellent job, as usual). "Waiting to Exhale" is a film that takes you on a powerful and heartfelt excursion with four women: Bernie, Savannah, Robin and Gloria.
Gloria lives with her teenaged son Tarik.
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Sex and the City with a Twist
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I do give Director Forrest Whitaker points for keeping the story moving at a nice clip but the message here that all men are Creeps (except for the ones whose wives have died) is tiring. Compared to the sparkling Ms. Lacking Ms. Devine is the most affecting, proving that less is more. Bassett, who is usually excellent, becomes a cliche as her husband leaves her for (gasp) a white woman and she is resigned to burning his wardrobe, destroying his car, and calling her rival the "B" word at her Ex's office. On the other hand, Ms.
Bassett's charisma, poor Whitney poses beautifully but moves her neck like a bobblehead and any second you expect her to cry out "Crack is Whack." She behaves like a moron for most of the film (even using bad grammar as she admits to "Axing" God for help ). I can hear Oprah screaming "You Go Girl." but more subtelty would be refreshing. Ms. Devine, the other Stars often struggle.
but finally has a moment of clarity and gives her creepy married lover his walking papers. Though her performance is the most sublime of the four actresses, Ms. Then there is Whitney Houston, who is simply out of her league. Devine's superior acting chops or Ms. Though at times padded and overwrought, "Exhale" ends up being more than a sum of its parts thanks mostly to Loretta Devine, who is superb as a full-figured divorcee with a rebellious son and a gay ex husband.
I must admit that I liked this film a lot more than I thought I would. Rachon is forgettable as she meanders through one worthless relationship to another.
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This is a must see for all women over the age of 18. It is the ultimate chick flick.
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Best break-up movie ever made :-)
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Highly recommended. Girls need to stick together, especially during those times when we need each-others support the most. This movie will lift your spirits and remind you that all women go through the same thing (thus, you are not alone), we need to stick together ("divide and conquer" is not an option), and that life will go one (sometimes better then before). If you've ever suffered a break-up, or are just fed-up with men in general, this is the movie for you. Break-ups can be heart-wrenching when our friends aren't there to support us.
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