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4/10
Reality check/no happy ending.
terese-5350812 October 2021
The plot comes very close to the ills that many African American women suffer with romance/marriage/career and settling in relationships, by focusing on a particular incident that may or may not be simular to an actual occurance. So sad but statistics prove that there are many unmarried black women in America. This movie is refreshing because it deals with this reality which so many face. Hopefully its the start of addressing this problem in our society while acknowledging the facts so we can strive towards a solution. Then we can heal.
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1/10
I'm embarrassed that I watched this movie from start to finish!
blackiemiss25 May 2021
You know what this movie portrayed? That a black successful woman cannot find true love. I kept watching this movie hoping I'd see a twist somewhere and that it would take a different turn until I got to the end where I asked myself, "what did I just do?"
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1/10
Messed up movie
mouna-6400129 August 2021
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So, a successful lawyer refuses to date a fellow lawyer but accepts to be in a relationship with a handyman because he has a good body but she doesn't mind that he embarrassed her in the restaurant nor being married with kids. This is a messed up movie. I really regret watching it. I don't recommend women to watch this because it will give you the idea that education and being self independent women doesn't count. Being with a man is the key for happiness!!!!! Wrong message for young girls out there.
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1/10
She goes back to him after HE LIED!
briggsg12 December 2021
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I'm late in catching this movie...(it's 2021)...Married man with 2 children. She buys him everything.

He lied and she did not ask.

What a dumbass woman to be a professional.

I am so disgusted and disappointed in this movie. Ugh!
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1/10
Ridiculous message
sakurakun-4983923 May 2021
I cannot believe this movie, what was the message? Don't work hard and don't be educated because no man will want you? Come on.
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1/10
VERY STUPID MOVIE!!!!!!!!!
kharisnosa12 May 2021
This is a very stupid movie that encourages the ills of a patriarchal society. I am very disappointed in every woman involved in the creation of this nonsense.
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8/10
Love knows No career.
wanjalavitalis24 September 2021
To ladies and gentlemen: While chasing your career goals, love is as important. You have to balance. If your life outside work is miserable, it will eventually affect your job.
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1/10
What a waste of time
sibsjay8 October 2021
What the heck was that. What really is the progressive lesson there or it's a story that happened to someone what the heck. 🚮
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1/10
Never seen a movie that bad...
gingerrrale28 November 2021
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Holy Molly, where do I start? Plot is boring, full of clichés...then all of it...all of it is just male gazing, if as a woman you want successful career, for sure you can't cook, have a good personality, think about anything than money or just have values. Ridiculous and long, what a waste of time.
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1/10
Waste of time
hidge882 September 2021
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I really wanted to believe in this movie as in a subtle message of love with no boundaries, but the ending completely ruined this. SPOILER ALERT

So the guy has a wife and children back in Haiti whom he brings his mistress/illegal bigamy wife to meet, they have a jolly old time in Haiti, until his mistress decides hold up this isn't going to work but thank you as you taught me how to love.... okay so now she'll go back to her mansion in th USA knowing she can not divorce him for 2 years otherwise he'll get deported. Something she'll have to explain to any potential partners in the interim....
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1/10
Omg - worst movie I have watched for a long time.
ajtaylor-169164 September 2021
Ridiculous plot. Bizarre dialogue , rough acting. And such a weird message it gives out. I don't know who is giving the 10* reviews for this - as they didn't each the same movie as me. Successful lawyer - can't get a man - so just go to some crazy length to get one.... bizarre and awful.
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1/10
Cringe
bibishadbolt-9722330 August 2021
Everything about this movie was bad- bad characterization, bad casting, terrible plot, terrible dialogue. Please don't watch it. It's everthing but a good movie.
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1/10
What in the actual fk
sdossa-7898111 September 2021
This movie is ridiculous and an insult to women. I wanted to scream at the lead. What was she thinking.
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10/10
Not for everyone
belloade17 November 2021
I loved this movie. Its about a black woman who is shown love by a person she least expects. The outcome and what she learned from the relationship is the takeaway, for me. She makes the right choice in the end. It may not be the best of situations but I really learned a lot for my personal life.
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1/10
Abnormal
contactseun20 October 2021
This kind of love should never be encouraged and I can't believe it ended like this...what exactly is the motive...except the prize a person pays for what bishop Jake's called the gluttony of passion.
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1/10
WHAT NONSENSE
ndinda1728 September 2021
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What was this? And why do strong Women in Movies partnered with low income men, like The Propsal, Something News, Act like a Man,??. Let me just inform YOU DO NOT NEED A MAN TO BE HAPPY. BACK to this movie, o need to watch it its basically a lawyer good at her work then she sleeps with her worker but she can't have him and now she is sad. What Nonsense.
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1/10
Worst movie I've ever seen!!!!
shalouuu9 September 2021
Everything about this movie was wrong! And what message are they trying to put across? Awful just awful! Do not waste your time.
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1/10
Hated it
emmanuellaezinne30 May 2021
A big shame to everyone that saw this movie including myself. A bigger shame to everyone that supported it. The biggest shame to everyone involved in the production of this sham.

Everything about it is stupid. Don't watch it if you are sane and still want your sanity.
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1/10
Deplorable
kumbimanutd5 September 2021
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Awful movie. All throughout it was horrible. This is an insult to women, black women and black men. Refuse a plausible fellow lawyer, waste time with your personal trainer and a Gardner , depict black women as angry man hungry sex hungry insulting and insulted. Show the characters growth by having her accept her love for a man who lies cheats and is married with children. Present this as normal. Yukkkkkk.
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Terrible..just utter crap
saranoone7 April 2022
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From the people who brought us the equally as terrible movie, Phat girlz this movie is basically a movie to glorify toxic dysfunctional relationships.

Female Lawyer is a "pick me". Who likes to pretend that she's a strong, firm, independent woman who doesn't need a man, who won't lower her standards or expectations, and who will never accept any crap from a man....

But does the opposite all throughout the movie.

She doesn't have high self esteem, confidence, very insecure, very desperate, and she's a prude with superiority complexes mixed with the inferior ones. She thinks alot of people are beneath her, and doesn't give them a deserving chance. She just closes off and runs away.

So she's a successful lawyer who's sponsoring her casual flings with the gift of cash and expensive gifts. She cuts one of her men off, and finds a new causal fling partner like right after she got rid of the first..like same day within about an hour, she found comfort in the arms of her handyman...like right away after she gets drunk in front of this stranger on the first day meeting him..she sleeps with him and doesn't stop.

Along the way she is embarrassed by him because he doesn't measure up to her standards. She feel like he and his life are beneath her So she makes him her personal charity case and personal project in hopes of making him into what she wants him to be so that she can show him off to people. The people with money and status that matter to her.

So she begins to emasculate and humiliate him by insulting him constantly. She basically tells him that his life has no meaning and purpose because he lives with other grown men, doesn't have a place of his own, doesn't have any accolades or status behind his name because she doesn't consider being a handyman as a career choice he should have.

She is verbally abusive towards him throughout the movie, and buys more expensive stuff or does things for him as sorry gifts to him.

She basically calls him a nobody for alot of the movie.

She begins to nagg him about his place so much that he accepts her offer to move into her guess house that she usually rents free of charge.

He abandons his integrity, his values, moral compass, and ethics really quickly. He goes from declining gifts and explaining to her that this challenges his personally defined masculinity, that he basically feels less than a man,has to make his own way, to not much putting up a fight. She merely tells him she wants to and he's like okay, every single time.

They use, humiliate, embarrass, and manipulate each other some more.

He calls her out on her terrible ways and insecurities often, Which as a rebuttal, She often victimizes herself, and often runs and cries in her room knowing he'll come to her every single time. To deliver the sympathy, coddling, and good loving.

She becomes very clingy, and attached to him rather quickly often getting upset when he wants to spend time doing things besides spending time with her.

He can smell, sense, taste the desperation and needyness that she exudes, and uses that to his advantage to manipulate and use her some more. He knows that in order for him to get a green card out of her, he must up the antics and get her to fully serve and submit to him.

It works. Even though he had lied to her, cheated on her, and used her she apparently doesn't care and it's water under the bridge.

She doesn't care she just wants him. She doesn't want to be lonely and single. Which she is technically single throughout the entire movie because she assumes that they're dating and committed.

A few sob stories, and basically telling her that he can love as many as he wants and does as he pleases, she swoons still and decides to marry him.

I turned it off after that.

Couldn't watch anymore. Horrifically terrible.

For a lawyer who's supposed to be successful and intelligent, she gives out terrible advice, and doesn't think clearly.

So she married him, meets his wife in Haiti.

Goes back to being alone obligated and tied to him financially for at least 2 years.

She doesn't take into account that the job she worked hard and cherish can be deeply effected from her shenanigans.

Except for Camille, all the rest of the actors are terrible and sound robotic . Especially the main woman.

Writing was terrible. Movie made no sense alot.

Script is terrible. It was fast pace. Characters underdeveloped

Too many cliches and nudges /reminders to viewers through certain scenes that the main man was in Phat girlz. That this was from the people who made that terrible movie.

Also, I think that him saying that she never asked if he was married was to show us how the lines get often blurred and misinterpreted. They've never had any talk of exclusivity and of commitment, so in his mind they were having a casual affair and his personal and private life he didn't feel the need to disclose. They were having a fling, she never asked. She gets mad because she's been convincing herself that they're dating. Just like in the party.

She's a control freak who is very hypocritical and condescending all throughout the movie.

Also to have passed all formal training in order to have become a "good" lawyer as the film tries to imply that she is.. She's pretty dense. A lawyer inviting a stranger to live in a property of yours without knowing anything about them and not automatically doing a background check is unrealistic. She never did the whole entire film. Then she'd project her anger about not knowing anything on him. The entire film she blames him for her unethical approach with the situation with him.

She also isn't a good listener or open minded person.
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1/10
It's a no
triciaking29 August 2021
Not a very progressive film for women. I couldn't believe how this story was being played out. Not very progressive at all. Incredible.
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10/10
Refreshing twist
andreakjimenez-8526116 June 2020
I loved this movie. It's definitely not your basic love story. It's a must-see for anyone who knows the struggles of trying to find the one.
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1/10
Horrible horrible!
gethrudecharles9 September 2021
This is the worst movie I have seen my entire life.

Kept watching hoping something would happen that would make it all makes sense. But no! It is a complete waste of time

I am absolutely disgusted by the movie, the actors and production crew.
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Complete waste of your time !!!!!!
nshemirepraise29 August 2021
Please do not watch this movie !! That's all I can say.
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1/10
😖
fatousanokho29 August 2021
Nothing about this movie come together. I don't know if it's the choice of actors, the acting, the story or else but it make me cringe throughout the entire movie.

What a waste of time watching it luckily I was busy while it was in the background.
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