What was the specialty of film waiting to exhale?”
Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett light up the silver screen just in time for the holidays in the anticipated film adaptation of Terry McMillan’s enormously popular novel, Waiting To Exhale. The movie, a frank look at women’s friendships and sexuality, is the provocative story of four Black women and their trials and tribulations as they navigate through the pitfalls of relationships with husbands and lovers. Whitney Houston, the world renowned Grammy Award-winning recording star who made her acting debut in the blockbuster movie The Bodyguard in 1992, stars as the lead character, Savannah Jackson, who is a sexy, single young woman who returns from Denver to …
Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 romance film starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett, directed by Forest Whitaker. The movie was adapted from the novel of the same name by Terry McMillan and also stars Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon. The original music score was composed by Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. The story centers on four female friends living in the Phoenix, Arizona area and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are “holding their breath” until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed relationship with a man. The movie is notable for having an all-black cast. The success of the film proved that there is an audience for black movies. The LA Times called it a “social phenomenon”.
