The Best Man Holiday Movie Blurb by Shale November 22, 2013 This movie opened last week and surprised everyone by its popularity at the box office, almost doubling its production cost in one weekend. I got around to seeing it this week, as neither of the new releases interested me. Best Man Holiday Poster This is a sequel to The Best Man that came out in 1999 and has the same eight member ensemble cast. After reading a synopsis of that movie, I vaguely remember seeing it and it would be best to know the backstory, which is revealed somewhat in this movie. The Best Man 1999 All the friends who had issues in college 14 years ago are getting together for Xmas Holidays at their friend Lance Sullivan's (Morris Chestnut) mansion. He is a successful NFL All-Star. There was some friction between him and his best friend Harper Stewart (Taye Diggs) a writer and Best Man at his wedding to Mia (Monica Calhoun). Seems Stewart had slept with Mia in college and didn't tell Lance. Also coming to the get together was Stewart's wife Robin (Sanaa Lathan), and the other friends, Julian Murch (Harold Perrineau) and his wife Candace (Regina Hall), Quentin (Terrence Howard), Shelby (Melissa De Sousa) and Jordan (Nia Long) who brot along her white BF Brian (Eddie Cibrian). While there are comedic moments in this movie I prefer to call it a romantic drama because there are some sad moments and lots of dramatic moments between these friends who are too much into each others past. (Sorta like family I suppose). Also, it would help to refresh your memory with the original movie - I may be getting a video to watch. When USA today called this movie "Race Themed" in a headline last week, it caused all sorts of comments on the Net. Many ppl protested that despite an all African-American cast (with the exception of Cibrian) it was not about race. That may be true - it was about human interraction between close friends but it was also about deep religion, about one of the guys calling a friend 'my niggah' and about everyone doing a double take and vanilla/chocolate comments when they first saw Jordan with a white man (and the black guy behind me groaned every time they kissed onscreen). I was also the only white person sitting in the theater today but don't dare point out that this may be a race themed movie. Sorry, but PC bothers me. I'm from an older generation when we didn't have to call a spade a shovel. There were just too many subtle black cultural references to not notice. Had all the actors been white with the same story and script it would have been a comedy of minstrel proportions. Anyhow, it was an enjoyable movie (bring tissue).
