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Apr 22, 2019 · And the ending, well, the ending, too, is refreshing in its understated way. Leslie Wright, that straight-talking physiotherapist, has no need of groveling. Even if I thought a certain NBA star needed to eat a bit more crow. And that’s all I’m going to say about that. See it. Just Wright is sweet and sassy. Truly, just right.
Jun 19, 2022 · When you talk about rom-coms, if you're leaving out a Queen Latifah movie, like Just Wright or The Last Holiday, it’s giving anti-Black. Period. Period. kathleen newman-bremang
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- When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
- Fire Island (2022)
- To All The Boys I've Loved Before (2018)
- Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
May 20, 2024 · Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood. Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Jedd Williard. Rom-com tropes: Friends to lovers. This movie includes one of the sexiest scenes of all time, a good old-fashioned ...
- The Best Man
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back
- Last Holiday
- Just Wright
- I Think I Love My Wife
- The Brothers
- A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
- Two Can Play That Game
- Deliver Us from Eva
- Love and Basketball
90s heartthrobs, Terrence Howard, Taye Diggs, and Morris Chestnut, starred in The Best Manalongside Nia Long, Regina Hall, and Sanaa Lathan. Produced by Spike Lee, the film recycles the classic best friends romcom plot. Close friends from the past meet together again for a wedding, but old secrets come to light, threatening to ruin the upcoming mar...
How Stella Got Her Groove Backis a classic starring Angela Bassett, about a forty-year-old woman who meets and falls in love with a twenty-year-old man in Jamaica. The movie is an adaptation of a best-selling novel of the same name, written by Terry McMillan. In the book, based on real events in McMillan's life, the author really does fall in love ...
Last Holidaystars Queen Latifah as Georgie Byrd, an average department store worker who learns that she has only a few weeks to live, because of a rare brain condition. The timid woman with a bland life spends all her money on one last extravagant holiday in Europe. Georgia is also in love with Sean, her co-worker. Unbeknownst to her, George shares...
Ever since her Living Single days, Queen Latifah has been coupled with leading black figures in film and sports. She dated men like Morris Chestnut and Grant Hill and even married Ll Cool J in Last Holiday. Last Holiday and Just Wright are the continuations of her niche as the romcom girl next door with whom audiences fall in love. Just Wrightdeser...
Chris Rock plays Richard Cooper, a husband in love with his wife, but in lust with an old friend in I Think I Love My Wife. Co-written by Chris Rock and Louis C.K., the movie features Gina Torres as his wife and Kerry Washington as his old friend, Nikki, trying to lure him into an affair. The movie deals with the issue of infidelity in a marriage d...
Like Taye Diggs, Morris Chestnut was the sweetheart of black romcoms of the '90s and '00s. A regular face in TV and film at the time, he stars inThe Brotherswith Shemar Moore, D. L. Hughley, and Gabrielle Union. RELATED: 10 Funniest Black Male Actors In TV Comedies Similar to The Best Man, The Brothersfollows four close friends dealing with their r...
Playboy, Darnell Wright (Martin Lawrence) meets his match when Brandi Webb (Lynn Whitfield) steps into the Chocolate City club in Los Angeles. Darnell sets out to prove that he can seduce the hottest, richest woman in the neighborhood. After a series of romantic gestures aimed at winning her over, Brandi makes Darnell promise not to break her heart...
Two Can Play That Game is a star-studded romcom with Morris Chestnut, Vivica Fox, Gabrielle Union, and Mo'Nique. With a plot similar to Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, Shante Smith (Vivica Fox) must keep her man in check after he starts dating a new woman. Shante believes that a man who threatens to cheat can be 'trained' and 'manipulated' into ...
In the battle of the sexes, Ray (Ll Cool J) is hired to seduce the ice queen, Eva (Gabrielle Union). The film is a retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrewin modern-day Los Angeles. Eva is too much of a match for master player, Ray and Ray turns down the pay after one date. In typical rom-com fashion, they accidentally meet again immediat...
Cult class, Love and Basketballis the most recognized black rom-com of the era. Starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan, the movie was also produced by Spike Lee and set in Los Angeles. Next-door neighbors, Quincy and Monica both share a love of basketball that eventually lead them to fall for each other. Written by Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Li...
Budget. $12 million. Box office. $21.5 million [1] Just Wright is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sanaa Hamri, starring Queen Latifah and Common. The film tells the story of a physical therapist, Leslie Wright, who falls in love with a professional basketball player, Scott McKnight. It received mixed reviews from critics.
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Feb 12, 2023 · Let's bring multiple genres into the mix when we're talking Scott Pilgrim Vs.The World. It's definitely funny. It's definitely a romantic comedy. But it's also an action/adventure movie, and it's ...
