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Name: Waiting to Exhale
Released: 1995-12-22
Cast: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon, Loretta Devine

Waiting to Exhale

R
2h 3m
1995

56%

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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!

Director:

Forest Whitaker

Producer:

Ezra Swerdlow, Deborah Schindler

Writer:

Terry McMillan, Ron Bass

Cast:

Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon, Loretta Devine

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

56%

Critics Consensus: Waiting to Exhale looks at life's ups and downs from an underseen perspective -- albeit one that's poorly served by uneven acting and a sporadically interesting story.

Reviews

Times (UK)

Geoff Brown

The film, based on Terry McMillan's novel, no doubt began with higher ambitions than magazine fiction to be read under a hairdrier: but its development is so bald and the colors so glossy that magazine fiction is the result.

It comes across as a bland buppie soap opera, with scant storyline outside the shortcomings of a series of more or less useless, unattractive, unreliable or married men.

Glutinous but pseudo-feminist.

Director Forest Whitaker deserves a huge round of applause for bringing this overbloated story to the big screen screen in a succinct yet heartwarming manner.

I did enjoy watching this. It wasn't painful.

December 31, 2020

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