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Waiting to Exhale
Four upper-class African American women end up being great friends after they start to create affiliation with each other when they discover that all of them face imperfect and flawed love lives.
1 September 1966, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
24 January 1971, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2 June 1954, San Mateo, California, USA
17 April 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 July 1961, USA
22 June 1974, New York City, New York, USA
11 February 1988, Stockton, California, USA
17 April 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 June 1960, Havana, Cuba
January 01, 2000
Four main female characters trudging through a movie's worth of similar repeated blunders adds up to one scary truckload of drama.
January 01, 2000
With the exception of Bernadine, I never felt anything for the women populating this film, as they failed to capture my interest or sympathy.
January 01, 2000
For all the pleasure there is in seeing effective, great-looking black women grappling with major life issues on screen, Waiting to Exhale is an uneven piece.
April 17, 2002
Is there a woman alive who hasn't demanded an explanation from the Almighty about the losers that she keeps getting?
August 29, 2002
Offers a winning portrait of sassy black sister solidarity.
December 21, 2004
Whitney Houston's alleged dramatic acting and dull, uninvolving storyline weighs down the virtues of the film.
February 13, 2001
A pleasant if undemanding piece of work that is diverting to sit through though it won't stand up to any kind of rigorous examination.
June 05, 2002
There are some humorous observations, irrefutable truths and good performances that make this movie worthwhile to those in a man-bashing mindframe.
January 01, 2000
You want the movie to stomp and rejoice and cry like a fool; instead it meanders and lollygags, occasionally flaring up, then sputtering again.
January 01, 2000
The male-bashing taken to an extreme in Waiting to Exhale is starting to seem a little like crack for the female psyche, exhilarating in the short term but ultimately crippling and dangerous.
April 12, 2002
Never escapes the queasy aura of Melrose Place: just another story about beautiful people with small problems.
September 19, 2006
Stylish but shallow melodrama, based on McMillan's best-seller.