This story based on the best selling novel by Terry McMillan follows the lives of four African-American women as they try to deal with their very lives. Friendship becomes the strongest bond between these women as men, careers, and families take them in different directions. Often light-hearted this movie speaks about some of the problems and struggles the modern women face in today's world.

Director Forest Whitaker was the unanimous first choice of the film's producers and screenwriters.

Gloria:
Would you like to have dinner with us tonight? It's just leftovers. Collard greens and corn bread, some candied yams, a little potato salad, fried chicken, peach cobbler and a few slices of ham.


Marvin:
I would love to, but I've got so much to do around here. Maybe some other time.


Gloria:
To be honest, I don't have no business eating any of it as big as I am.


Marvin:
My wife was a big woman too. I like a woman with some meat on her bones.

Continuity: Gloria's right earring appears and disappears during her conversation with her ex-husband about their son.

Performed by Whitney Houston
Written by Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds
Produced by Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds for Ecaf Productions
Whitney Houston appears courtesy of Arista Records, Inc.