Two things really stuck out to me in this film: first, it was fantastic to see such a great lineup of black female stars and extras in a film. Though it is wholly unrealistic to expect that EVERY woman of color you see will be as smokin' hot as you will see here, enjoy it all the same. The second part was that Angela Bassett's character gets to go to her husband's workplace and assault the white woman she presumes her husband is having an affair with after setting fire to her husband's car and clothes; Loretta Devine gets to interrupt her son being physically involved with a white woman while trying to reconcile the fact that her husband is a homosexual; Lea Rochon gets to deal with a subhuman masquerading as a man; and I haven't even dealt with Whitney Houston's character! It's a great laugh-fest, and I can tell you black men found it hilarious. OK, no they did not. But here's a fun fact: the studio actually tried to sell this film by creating a short film of women who (presumably) had seen the film and liked it - and two of them were white. Figure that one out if you can.
Review of Waiting to Exhale
Waiting to Exhale
(1995)
Nicely Racist, Homophobic and Anti-Male Comedy
1 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers