Reviewed by zardoz-13 9 / 10 Flavorful African-American Family MelodramaĪppetizing, home-cooked Sunday dinners save a family in stress in writer & director George Tillman, Jr.'s autobiographical movie "Soul Food," an emotionally satisfying but occasionally saccharine tour-de-force family melodrama. Mama Joe's grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband's arrest. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. 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. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food.
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