This is a beautifully filmed experience; thereafter a sort of emotional torpor sets in and it struggles to make headway in self-made heavy seas. The story, upon which it is based, offers us yards of controversial and harrowing material to work from, and ample scope to develop the characterisations, but somehow this just finds it's way into a cul-de-sac and never really discovers a way out. The cast, especially Regina King's emotionally fraught "Sharon" , and KiKi Layne's "Tish" really do impress...
Read Full Review**_Beautifully shot, but emotionally languid_** > **Studs Terkel**: _Did you feel a sense of shame about a heritage that is really so_ rich_, when you accepted the white man's stereotype of yourself?_ > >**James Baldwin**: _I'm afraid that is one of the great dilemmas, one of the_ great _psychological hazards, of being an American Negro. In fact, much more than that. I've seen a great many people go under because of this dilemma. Every Negro in America is in one way or another menaced by i...
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Beginning, Tish and Fonny walk down the steps
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(1:53) Tish talks about Fonny's passion
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Fonny hands Tish's mother the sculpture
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(1:37) Tish and Fonny on a date, walking through the rain
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(1:30) Fonny shows Tish his apartment and they have sex
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(1:21) Tish tells the story of how Fonny was accused of raping Victoria
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