Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine's marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family's uses. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the younge... (Full plot summary below)
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Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine's marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family's uses. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband's arrest. Mama Joe's grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertGeorge 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. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorDirector George Tillman Jr.'s screenplay covers an array of events in the characters' lives so replete with drama it could easily be too much, but the movie's humor is vibrant, the sorrow unexploitive, the sexuality character enhancing, and the love heartfelt--and Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasHumor, sentiment and melodrama strike a balance as he brings to life nine major characters and a host of others as well. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaAs warm and funny as it is dramatic and emotionally involving, with fully-fleshed characters brought to life by the strong ensemble acting. |
| CNN.comPaul TataraAn overt desire to please often leaves Tillman relying on force-feeding techniques. |
| VarietyGodfrey CheshireSoul Food serves up family melodrama-cum-comedy that's tasty and satisfying, if not particularly profound or original. |
| L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyBut if you go in knowing this, the payoff is considerable - the film delivers on its feel-good promise. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellThis new menu movie has a soapy plot, appealing stars, family values, down-home atmosphere and a conviction that there's rarely a problem fried chicken can't cure. |
| USA TodaySusan WloszczynaIn the tradition of such food-as-love films as "Eat Drink Man Woman" and "Big Night", kitchen work is idealized as a form of communion in this indulgently nostalgic story -- deep-fried with plot, script, and character cliches but honey glazed with goodwill... |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSoul Food stays a cut above the average melodrama by keeping the characters grounded and the situations from becoming too ripe. |
