Jeffrey D. Sams

Soul Food -- Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food.

Waiting to Exhale -- Four women, all friends, are waiting...meet Savannah, Bernadine, Robin and Gloria.

Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food.

Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food.

Sunday dinner at Mothers Joe's (Irma P. Hall) is a mouth watering, 40 year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond), love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) and her sisters Teri (Vanessa Williams) and Bird (Nia Long). But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.

When diabetes hospitalizes matriarch Mama Joe, Sunday soul food dinners end. The relationship between her three daughters becomes strained, so grandson Ahmed comes up with a solution to bring the three close again and back to their family dinner table.

Four successful African-American women endure the ups and downs of modern love in this witty, often hilarious film based on the best-selling novel. Directed by Forest Whittaker, with Loretta Devine, Dennis Haysbert, Gregory Hines.

Bound together by threads of destiny, six people trudge through the tangled paths of their troubled lives. As they drift along on seemingly fated courses -- bumping into one another along the way -- can they break free from their reflexive behavior? Sean O'Bryan, Travis Schuldt, Jay Thames, Jennifer Ferguson, Jamie Anne Allman and Brandy Howard star in this edgy ensemble drama directed by Jonathan Walls.

Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.

Four women, all friends, are waiting...meet Savannah, Bernadine, Robin and Gloria.

Four women, all friends, are waiting...meet Savannah, Bernadine, Robin and Gloria.

Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.