Soul Food (1997)
A single person can make a family stay together, but that person’s absence can make them drift apart. Soul Food is about an extended African-American family, who is engrossed in old family traditions which slowly lessen as more serious issues enter their lives.
1 September 1966, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3 June 1935, Beaumont, Texas, USA
18 April 1971, Evanston, Illinois, USA
30 October 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA
29 May 1972, Mansfield, Ohio, USA
10 June 1971, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
13 October 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 December 1974, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
January 05, 2009
As warm and funny as it is dramatic and emotionally involving, with fully-fleshed characters brought to life by the strong ensemble acting.
March 17, 2008
A messy, good-natured paean to the power of food and family to fix what ails you.
March 17, 2008
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.
June 25, 2004
A glossy and generally praiseworthy melodrama by writer-director George Tillman.
March 17, 2008
Tillman is tremendously skilled at bridging the vast shifts in tone.
March 17, 2008
Soul Food aims to be a banquet of feelings, but mostly it serves up tripe.
February 09, 2006
A hearty, old fashioned meal of a film.
March 17, 2008
Soul Food serves up family melodrama-cum-comedy that's tasty and satisfying, if not particularly profound or original.
March 17, 2008
Your appetite may be blunted by the surfeit of syrup.
December 30, 2003
Lively family comedy-drama, nicely served up
March 17, 2008
An overt desire to please often leaves Tillman relying on force-feeding techniques.
July 11, 2007
This story is right out of America's collective unconscious.
