Bill Bellamy, Isaiah Washington, Larenz Tate

Boy meets girl, and boy loses girl--no more and no less than that--in this romantic story of young, upwardly mobile African Americans navigating through Chicago club culture to the perilous shores of ...( read more  read more... )a relationship. The film was surprisingly popular at a couple of key film festivals in 1997, but there isn't anything particularly noteworthy about it aside from its rare emphasis on a love affair between black urbanites. Larenz Tate and Nia Long are fine in the leads (Tate makes a convincingly self-centered boy-man), and director Theodore Witcher aims for his small target and hits it squarely. --Tom Keogh

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22,450 ratings

R, 109 min.

Directed by: Theodore Witcher

Release Date: June 1, 1996

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DVD Release Date: July 27, 1999

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  • October 21, 2008
    man, its been years since ive seen this, too many to really remember much of anything about the flick, except that i remember it having a charm to it and this is one of the films that started me in on a small crush on nia long.
  • August 6, 2007
    the only movie i thought nia long's acting was good...not hatin..stating facts
  • March 21, 2007
    Cool soundtrack. Fun movie.
  • September 18, 2007
    A modern love story.
  • April 12, 2007
    A fantastic movie! This is one of my favorite movies that I like to watch every now and then.
  • November 2, 2009
    one of my all time favorite movie.
  • October 28, 2009
    This is a all time favorite of mines
  • October 7, 2009
    An alright love story.
  • September 5, 2009
    This movie inspired me to step my poetry up. I will always enjoy this movie. It is the story of my life...LOL
  • September 4, 2009
    Hopeless Romantic at HEART

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