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Soul Food (1997)
One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart. Soul Food centers on the trials of an extended African-American family, held together by longstanding family traditions which begin to fade as serious problems take center stage.Â
6 February 1984, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
30 October 1963, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
13 October 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 January 1937, Ohio, USA
2 September 1969, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
December 30, 2003
Lively family comedy-drama, nicely served up
February 09, 2006
A hearty, old fashioned meal of a film.
March 17, 2008
Soul Food serves up family melodrama-cum-comedy that's tasty and satisfying, if not particularly profound or original.
June 25, 2004
A glossy and generally praiseworthy melodrama by writer-director George Tillman.
March 17, 2008
A messy, good-natured paean to the power of food and family to fix what ails you.
March 17, 2008
Your appetite may be blunted by the surfeit of syrup.
March 17, 2008
Soul Food aims to be a banquet of feelings, but mostly it serves up tripe.
July 11, 2007
This story is right out of America's collective unconscious.
March 17, 2008
The steaming platters of fried catfish, macaroni and cheese, sweet corn bread, and black-eyed peas that appear early and often in writer-director George Tillman Jr.'s sentimental family drama should be listed in the credits as costars.
March 17, 2008
Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone.
March 17, 2008
An overt desire to please often leaves Tillman relying on force-feeding techniques.
January 05, 2009
As warm and funny as it is dramatic and emotionally involving, with fully-fleshed characters brought to life by the strong ensemble acting.