nope, you are not making this up. this actually was a scene in the movie and it actually irritated me!! lol

Thanks for the reviews
 

Thanks, all, for your take on this movie.

I doubt that I will rent it any time soon. I had some mild interest -- I must be the only person whom I know hadn't seen all of the buppie movies like Love Jones, The Wood and The Best Man (which I saw about a month ago at one of my ls' house).

I saw the movie a few years ago hoping that it would be good. HATED IT. That movie SUCKED. I still want those precious moments I lost back when I was watching the movie. But I will admit that the soundtrack was good. But the movie SUCKED. Don't even watch it on UPN. But then again it makes you wonder why it never made it to network television. Take the HINT. DON'T SEE IT.

Re: soundtrack
 

Did (or do) you go to SIUC? I was surprised to see the link to the DE on here. :D

Re: Re: soundtrack
 

No, i attend Northeastern University ('03) in Boston.

I just happened to do a a Google search

;)

I actually liked the movie and have it on tape :) . Maybe it's because Hav and I have similar personalities.

DSQ
Mystique
#4 KN SP01

Thumbs up!
 

I liked the movie too. My first time seeing it was actually about 6 months ago. I thought it was dumb at first, but then I just got into it. It makes sense to me...

Saw it on BlackStarz
 

Saw part of this on BlackStarz this weekend. It was serviceable, not as enjoyable as say, The Best Man. I got a new line from it, however: when Haviland cussed out Lee Plenty and called him a "p%#@-colored m@(*&%$>{@!"

I can use that on the ghetto security guard in my office building if he ever tries to step to me. :p

Here's a review from the Philadelphia Weekly newspaper:
Hav Plenty

Having recently revisited this 1997 movie one night on one of the many Encore channels embedded in my digital cable package, it's saddening to know this movie still hasn't captured the audience it should have gotten by now. (I mean, it had an all-star soundtrack and everything!) Part of the problem was this movie was released after Hollywood swamped black audiences with such consistent farcical trash as Sprung, Woo, How to Be a Player and the notoriously execrable Booty Call. But the most primary explanation for the movie's lack of fanbase is what it basically represents: This story of a charming but homeless bohemian writer (writer/director Christopher Scott Cherot), who thinly hides his love for his upscale best friend (Chenoa Maxwell) while spending a hectic New Year's Eve weekend at her parents' house, complete with an odd assortment of supporting characters, did the unthinkable and displayed black folk as neurotic, eccentric, confused, self-deprecating, witty, vulnerable and a bunch of other stuff you'd regularly see in romantic comedies starring white people. They were flawed, but not in the way black people are usually seen in the movies. No one had a drug problem. No one had bad credit. No one was on welfare. No one was having freaky, sweaty, unprotected sex because that's the only thing they can do while they wait for their county check to come so they can buy Top Ramen and Jolly Ranchers for their eight kids. Racial stereotypes were shattered; it was a black movie, but not really.

And of course, the movie's distributor, Miramax Films, had absolutely no idea how to market it. (If the movie starred Gwyneth Paltrow, that sucker woulda been a damn Oscar contender!) Audiences may have considered the movie too bougie for visual consumption, but it's still worth checking out. So next time you're at Blockbuster and just dying to get your hands on a copy of How High or The Wash, get the nearest Sex and the City VHS box set you can find and continually beat yourself over the head with it. And after you're done with that, go and find a copy of Hav Plenty.

I have only seen the movie once and that was last summer, I thought that the movie sucked big time! The only thing goood that came out of that movie was that Blackstreet song!

Havalind
 

Just FYI- the girl who played Hav in Hav Plenty is the same girl in Joe's video- What If A Woman....

Personally, I really liked the movie- those of you who didn't watch it until the end, may have missed the most real part- Lee Plenty's letter to Hav. Sometimes you just don't have the nerve to say what you feel- I think that was really the premise of the film. However, I will concur, it was definately low budget and the biscuit phone call and the dream with the teeth falling out could have been omitted!!!

That's Just My .08 cents!!!

"Kaptivating" Kapp Mu Chapter
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Every woman's envy and Every man's dream.... there are no other like the PINK and GREEN.

I enjoyed the movie myself. It is one of my favorities because of the way the people are portrayed. God forbid our people have crazy issues LOL! I thought it was a diffrent slant on issues and I enjoyed it.

Sphinxpoet

The movie was bad, but you gotta love that soundtrack!!! It was fire!

Great Movie
 

Wow, I liked the movie. I told everyone I knew to rent and watch it. I must of watched it three times before I turned it back to the video store.

I think the "low budget" type filming added to the realness. Two Thumbs up.