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Loving Jezebel

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Loving Jezebel (2000)

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Reviews Counted:27

Fresh:9

Rotten:18

Average Rating:4.8/10

Consensus: The script is cliched and badly written. The female characters aren't believable, and the movie is not funny.

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Writer-director Kwyn Bader's debut feature is an extremely likeable romantic comedy that features a star-making performance from Hill Harper. Harper plays Theodorus Melville, a mixed-race suburban... Writer-director Kwyn Bader's debut feature is an extremely likeable romantic comedy that features a star-making performance from Hill Harper. Harper plays Theodorus Melville, a mixed-race suburban youth who discovers at an early age that he has a penchant for falling in love with the wrong girls--most often, his friends' girlfriends. Barely surviving college, where he slept with the girlfriend of the football team's star running back, Theodorus eventually settles in New York City with his best friend, whose gorgeous Trinidadian girlfriend, Mona (Sandrine Holt), can't hide her attraction for him. Meanwhile, Theodorus is in the midst of a passionate affair with Frances (Nicole Ari Parker), a firecracker of an actress whose mental stability is questionable. Working as a waiter in a coffee shop, Theodorus befriends the bumbling Samantha (Laurel Holloman), a sweet-natured woman who is married to Gabe (David Moscow), a walking time bomb. By the time that Theodorus has an epiphany which enables him to fully give in and choose his truest love, his philandering ways threaten to catch up with him once and for all. [More]

Starring: Hill Harper, Andre B. Blake, Elisa Donovan, Larry Gilliard

Starring: Hill Harper, Andre B. Blake, Elisa Donovan, Larry Gilliard, Laurel Holloman, Sandrine Holt, David Moscow, Nicole Parker, Phylicia Rashad

Director: Kwyn Bader

Director: Kwyn Bader
Screenwriter: Kwyn Bader
Producer: David Lancaster
Composer: Tony Prendatt

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Amateurishly directed.

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Lou Lumenick
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Might be more successful if it weren't built on a foundation of barely-concealed misogyny.

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Loving Jezebel, a joyous first feature by director Kwyn Bader, is a charmer.

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Peter Stack
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Harper certainly garners audience sympathy because he really is a sensitive guy, but he's unconvincing as a romeo who 'loves all the things about women their men don't love.' What is this, a Luther Vandross song?

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A fundamental lack of substance.

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The sort of film that should make people appreciate The Ladies Man more. It was certainly a lot more fun.

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Bader's film is 87 minutes of over-caffeinated Midnite Love masquerading as lit-major trash.

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