Soul Food is a gem of a film that warms the heart and does feed the soul.
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01/01/00
Soul Food (1997)
80 %
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Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 32
Rotten:8
Average Rating: 6.2/10
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 Sunday dinners. However, when dissent... [More]
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Irma P. Hall
Director: George Tillman
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Reviews for Soul Food
Top Critic
An overt desire to please often leaves Tillman relying on force-feeding techniques.
03/17/08
Top Critic Soul Food aims to be a banquet of feelings, but mostly it serves up tripe.
03/17/08
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
A messy, good-natured paean to the power of food and family to fix what ails you.
03/17/08
Soul Food serves up family melodrama-cum-comedy that's tasty and satisfying, if not particularly profound or original.
03/17/08
Top Critic
Top Critic
A glossy and generally praiseworthy melodrama by writer-director George Tillman.
06/25/04
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