This movie has more depth than the colours of the wind, to borrow from Vanessa Williams' song in "Pocahontas" another interracial love-story BTW...
Tisha Campbell is a would-be chef who turns out to be a former bank executive, she fights over a burrito with Dana Ashbrook, her car breaks down but all he sees is a cute tush bending over the engine and things move from there! They guest at a gay couple she's been friends with for years, including a one-eared dog who looks mostly Golden Retriever.
It seems Dana's character is on a mission to place his mother's ashes out in the wilds of America and Tisha's character shows him how to live and love and in so doing make her scared of her own passion.
His mother was a bit psychic and said he'd find his love in spirals - which can be taken to mean either Tisha's hairstyle of corkscrew natties or the spiral notebooks of all the songs he wrote over the years that the mother never got rid of and saved for Ashbrook.
What I like about this bittersweet romance is many aspects - the fact she is black and he is white is never touched on except in the joking part after they got married where he said he liked Brownies and she admitted she adored Twinkies; the raging passionate arguments the two have and the equally passionate forgivings are rather realistic for couples who care deeply for each other; her joy in living fighting the slow desperation of her dying of leukemia inspires him to chase his dream and quit being a lowly demoted teller - in fact, he excels as a musician, in the end singing the love he shared with her! She could have done like Charlize Theron who chased away Keanu Reeves in "Sweet November," but Tisha's character stood her ground and she learned more about living too by taking a very wild chance on love! This is a date movie where you carry Kleenex, but definitely look to get at least a deep smooch or two! http://bajanreporter.blogspot.com/
Tisha Campbell is a would-be chef who turns out to be a former bank executive, she fights over a burrito with Dana Ashbrook, her car breaks down but all he sees is a cute tush bending over the engine and things move from there! They guest at a gay couple she's been friends with for years, including a one-eared dog who looks mostly Golden Retriever.
It seems Dana's character is on a mission to place his mother's ashes out in the wilds of America and Tisha's character shows him how to live and love and in so doing make her scared of her own passion.
His mother was a bit psychic and said he'd find his love in spirals - which can be taken to mean either Tisha's hairstyle of corkscrew natties or the spiral notebooks of all the songs he wrote over the years that the mother never got rid of and saved for Ashbrook.
What I like about this bittersweet romance is many aspects - the fact she is black and he is white is never touched on except in the joking part after they got married where he said he liked Brownies and she admitted she adored Twinkies; the raging passionate arguments the two have and the equally passionate forgivings are rather realistic for couples who care deeply for each other; her joy in living fighting the slow desperation of her dying of leukemia inspires him to chase his dream and quit being a lowly demoted teller - in fact, he excels as a musician, in the end singing the love he shared with her! She could have done like Charlize Theron who chased away Keanu Reeves in "Sweet November," but Tisha's character stood her ground and she learned more about living too by taking a very wild chance on love! This is a date movie where you carry Kleenex, but definitely look to get at least a deep smooch or two! http://bajanreporter.blogspot.com/