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Soul Food
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Soul Food is a 1997 comedy-drama film, written and directed by George Tillman Jr., that explores the life of three sisters, played by Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, and Vanessa Williams. Brandon Hammond stars as Ahmad, who tells the story through his narration, via Third Person Omniscient.The film explores issues of infidelity, race, relationships, family politics, death and bonding over the soul food that the family partakes in on numerous occasions, especially Sunday afternoons after church. A follow-up series by the same name aired on Showtime from 2000 to 2004 and is the longest-running drama with a predominantly African-American cast in prime-time history. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: It's certainly not as toxic as some other fictional families, but there are definitely big problems. Teri and Maxine do not get along since Maxine stole Kenny from Teri when they were teens, so the resentment between them only grew over time, especially since Kenny and Maxine, of the three daughters, have the most healthy and happy relationship. Teri and Miles' marriage is extremely unhappy due to Teri being a workaholic and cold to her husband's dreams of becoming a singer slash musician. It comes to a head when their cousin Faith returns to town and after she and Miles bond over music (she's a dancer), they sleep together and Teri sees them, opting not to confront them since Ahmaud was with her at the time. Bird and Lem start off with issues when his slutty ex shows up to his wedding and proceeds to hike up her already too-short dress and grind on him in front of his entire new family and Lem doesn't see a problem with it, grinding on her right back. It almost causes Teri, Bird, and Maxine to go out there and whup the ex's ass, but lucky for her, Big Mama is implied to have sent her away and is dancing with Lem when the girls return for a confrontation. Lem ends up fired after lying on his resume, but doesn't tell Bird out of shame and worry that she won't stay with him. Bird then feels compelled to ask her ex to get him a new job, but then her ex forces her to have dinner with him and then brags about it to Lem later, causing Lem to assault him. Their Uncle Pete is senile and never leaves his room until the end of the movie after Big Mama Jo has died. All in all, they love each other, but there are problems everywhere. | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum | |
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Scarpia Ultimatum: A mild version. Bird's ex demands that she have dinner with him in exchange for getting Lem a job. | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry | |
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Among all the sisters, but primarily between Maxine and Teri. Understandable, as she stole Kenny from her when they were teenagers. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: How Teri manages to both get Lem thrown in jail and later removed from jail. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: Bird to Teri when its revealed that she paid a cousin to assault Lem (who ended up pulling a gun on the man, thus sending him to jail) when she thought he hurt Bird. Even Maxine grimaces at how harsh it is. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Reverend Williams, who even when saying grace at the Joseph family dinner, openly lusts after the women and gives them very unwanted advances. | |
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Ax-Crazy: Teri gets a brief moment of this after she confronts Miles for cheating on her with Faith. Needless to say, it doesn't end well. | |
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Black Gal on White Guy Drama | |
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Black Gal on White Guy Drama: Subverted. In the series, what hampers Brian and Teri's attempt at a relationship isn't their racial difference, just that she simply doesn't love him the way he loves her. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Faith's questionable past is brought up by Teri upon her moving in. It includes her going to jail and having Big Mama put up the house to post her bail. | |
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Kenny was given a lot more personality in the series versus how he was in the film, being far more vocal and an active role in the family and having his own tow truck business. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
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Ungrateful Bastard: Teri's money has paid for Ahmad's private school tuition, Bird's wedding, and Bird's business, yet her dialogue indicates that she's gotten nary a "Thank you" from any of these people. | |
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I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship | |
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I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: The excuse Teri consistently gives Brian for rebuffing his advances. Sure enough, when they do attempt a relationship, it falls apart very quickly due to her myriad of issues. | |
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Happily Ever After | |
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Happily Ever After: Everyone. Seriously. They even accept Faith back into the family and it's mentioned that Miles still drops by occasionally even after he and Teri split. | |
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Hello, Attorney! | |
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Hello, Attorney!: The beautiful lawyer, Teri, in both the film and television versions. Many of her clients and her coworkers would also qualify as such. | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl | |
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Faith is an example to an extent for Miles, although she does more harm than good. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Everyone in the series, but Teri is the prime example. In the movie, she was portrayed as being very uptight and cynical and constantly at Maxine's throat. In the television series, she is far more sedate in personality and a real mother hen to her family and got along better with Maxine. Kenny was given a lot more personality in the series versus how he was in the film, being far more vocal and an active role in the family and having his own tow truck business. | |
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Dramatic Shattering | |
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Dramatic Shattering: Lem slams the door to Bird's salon when he finds out that she got her ex to pull some strings to get him a job. | |
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A Family Affair | |
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A Family Affair: Teri was dating Kenny but he cheated on her with her sister Maxine when they were teenagers, resulting in animosity between the sisters to the present day. Miles cheats on his wife Teri with her cousin Faith. | |
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Fille Fatale | |
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Fille Fatale: Faith, in spades. First she goes to his group's show and flirts with Miles. Then she conveniently has him play piano for her dance audition in which she seduces him with her moves. Then they eventually have sex. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Maxine chides Teri for always reminding people that she pays for everything, but Teri points out that that's exactly what she does, with everyone automatically assuming that she will and not even having the decency to ask her or thank her. She's portrayed as a bitch for not supporting Miles' musical aspirations, but she's right hat he'd be foolish to abandon his steady, well-paying law profession for something nowhere near as reliable or profitable even under the best of circumstances. | |
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Birth-Death Juxtaposition | |
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Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Maxine gives birth to her third child. In the next scene, after all that joy, it's revealed that Big Mama has to have her leg amputated. She ends up dying from complications of the surgery. Bird also realizes she's pregnant shortly afterward. | |
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Nutritional Nightmare | |
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Nutritional Nightmare: Seriously, they eat like this every week? No wonder Big Mama has diabetes! Cartoon series The Boondocks would later converse this in an episode. | |
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The Immodest Orgasm | |
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The Immodest Orgasm: Bird and Lem sneak off to have a quickie. Lem enjoys it so much that she stuffs her panties into his mouth to muffle his groans! | |
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Auto Erotica | |
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Auto Erotica: In the flashback to when they were teenagers, Kenny and Maxine are caught getting physical in a car with fogged up windows by his girlfriend and her sister Teri. | |
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New Old Flame | |
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New Old Flame: Bird's ex Simuel St. James. You can tell this guy is nothing but trouble. And then you have to question Bird for letting him touch her suggestively in her wedding gown. Doesn't exactly help that Lem is dancing sexually with his ex-girlfriend at the wedding as well. | |
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The Unfavorite: Poor Teri. Her own mother completely dismisses her accomplishments—making partner in her law firm—and practically taunts her about being on her second marriage, while openly gushing over Maxine, who just had her third child. The entire family seems to have this attitude, even though Teri's career has helped them quite a bit. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Maxine delivers a small one to Teri while in the hospital. Ahmad also manages to give one to his bickering family after they initially try to blame him for lying about the reason why he summoned them to have Sunday dinner. | |
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Unconfessed Unemployment | |
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Unconfessed Unemployment: Lem is completely against the idea of letting Bird know he got fired. So much so that Kenny lends him money to keep up the charade. | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer: The film clearly wants the viewer to think this about Miles, given his and Teri's unhappy marriage and the way Faith is portrayed as genuinely caring about him, listening to him, and supporting his musical ambitions. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: At the beginning of the film, Lem was seen grinding with his ex-girlfriend at his wedding reception. As Teri, Maxine and Bird then decide to beat the woman up, they return to the dance floor and see Mama Joe dancing with him instead while the woman nowhere to be seen. This is never addressed further. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: Ahmad does this to his estranged family members so he can fulfill Big Mama's wishes to reunite the family. | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
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Parental Favoritism: Mama Joe clearly favors her happily married, mother-of-three middle daughter Maxine over successful workaholic older daughter Teri and naive youngest daughter Bird. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: At one point Ahmad and Kelly try to force their way into Uncle Pete's room, but after he shuts the door on them, Kelly runs off crying that he was messing with them. | |
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Wall Bang Her | |
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Wall Bang Her: Miles and Faith have sex against a wall. Unfortunately, Teri catches them. | |
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Sibling Triangle | |
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Sibling Triangle: A brief one between Teri, her then-boyfriend Kenny and her sister Maxine. Back when they were teenagers, Teri and Kenny were dating but her sister Maxine stole Kenny from her. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: Right after the birth of a child, its immediately announced that Big Mama needs her leg amputated to live. | |
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I Warned You | |
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I Warned You: Teri threatens Faith to stay in line when she moves in with her and Miles. It doesn't end well for Faith when she can't comply. | |
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Informed Flaw: Bird can't cook. And everyone knows it. Hell, even senile Uncle Pete seems to know automatically that she cooked the meal she served him and rejects it, resulting in a Funny Moment. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: While Kenny and Maxine named their first born and only boy Ahmad, their daughters are named Kelly and Brooke. | |
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Bedroom Adultery Scene | |
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Bedroom Adultery Scene: Teri's husband cheats on her with Faith in the second act and she catches him. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Teri. And with good reason. | |
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His Name Is... | |
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His Name Is...: Big Mama dies before completing her sentence to a confused Ahmad. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Maxine and Kenny, very much so. The film has them celebrating their wedding anniversary and both of her sisters express jealousy for her marriage. | |
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Both Sides Have a Point: Both Teri and Miles' arguments about his career are correct. On the one hand, Teri is already stressed out working hellish hours and being the financial support for the majority of the family's needs, so Miles wanting to drop being an attorney to pursue something that is far less lucrative and is risky comes across as selfish and irresponsible. However, Miles is clearly unhappy being an attorney and wants to do the thing he loves with all his heart, and that's not an unreasonable thing to want at all, especially since we see is a talented piano player and singer. The problem is that their already cold marriage gets even icier when he decides to quit his job and become a musician and singer full time against Teri's wishes. This puts an even bigger strain on Teri's pocketbook and on the marriage in general, and then along comes Faith... | |
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Dancing Is Serious Business | |
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Dancing Is Serious Business: For Faith. It's even the reason why she doesn't have a "straight job" as she puts it. | |
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Cool Old Lady: Big Mama, who managed to defuse a particularly messy situation at the wedding by dancing with her new son-in-law. She also, according to Ahmad, "never made one enemy." | |
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Hypocrite: The entire family criticizes Teri for being so career-focused, even though they all enjoy the income of her high paying job. | |
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Surprise Pregnancy: For Bird and at the worst possible time. | |
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Cat Fight: There is a flashback to when Teri and Kenny were dating, but Maxine catches Kenny's eye, enough that Teri later finds them making out in the car. Teri then drags Maxine out of the car and starts trying to kick her ass, with Kenny in the background stuck between Eating the Eye Candy of two fine black women fighting over him and yelling at them to knock it off. | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
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Awful Wedded Life: Teri and Miles. From the introduction of them as a couple, you can tell it's bound for disaster. All they do is argue and when Big Mama brings up the possibility of one of the sisters being pregnant, he shouts, "Don't look over here!" | |
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Gay Best Friend | |
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Gay Best Friend: Bird's fellow hairstylist. Check out his reaction to seeing Lem's er—private parts. | |
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Briefcase Full of Money | |
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Briefcase Full of Money: A myth among the family is that Big Mama stashed cash somewhere in the house. Turns out, its true! | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Teri, Lem and Miles in the film. Teri and Lem get better in the series, though. | |
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Food Porn | |
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Food Porn: So much so that you will be left starving after the film ends. | |
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Dead Sparks | |
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Dead Sparks: Teri and Miles. We first see them mostly disinterested in dancing together at the wedding and it all goes downhill from there. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Comparatively speaking, Faith and Miles being forgiven by the family by the film's end is a bit hard to swallow, especially since we don't see them apologize to Teri and the others, even if we believe it probably happened off-screen. | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Subverted. Lem in a furious rage lashes out at Bird. Though he doesn't hit her, he does push her a bit and she's visibly shaken afterwards. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Faith and Lem, who both have a long criminal records. | |
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