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01/11/04
Soul Food (1997)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:33
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: SOUL FOOD is a warmly atmospheric ensemble drama set around the abundant table of Chicago family matriarch Mother Joe, whose extended brood orbits around the stabilizing force of her sumptuous... [More]
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Irma P. Hall
Director: George Tillman
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Reviews for Soul Food
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11/18/02
Soul Food is certainly digestible fare but somewhat lacking in nutritional value.
01/01/00
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03/24/02
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03/12/04
Your appetite may be blunted by the surfeit of syrup.
03/17/08
Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone.
03/17/08
Top CriticGeorge Tillman says Soul Food is based in part on his own family, and I believe him, because he seems to know the characters so well; by the film's end, so do we.
01/01/00
Top CriticDespite its weaknesses, Soul Food offers enough pleasures to rate as a respectable freshman effort from Mr. Tillman.
10/15/02
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01/01/00
An overt desire to please often leaves Tillman relying on force-feeding techniques.
03/17/08
A glossy and generally praiseworthy melodrama by writer-director George Tillman.
06/25/04
Most of his dialogue sounds like it came straight out of a mediocre made-for-cable drama.
01/01/00
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07/27/02
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07/04/05
Warm and pleasant, if slightly simplistic.
01/01/00
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.
03/17/08
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09/27/05
Such ease of shorthand (the earth Mother Hubbard, the three sisters as mother, whore, and lawyer) detracts from the kind heart of Soul Food.
03/01/02
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