User:10000BL/Soul Food

Title: Soul Food
Year: 1997
Director: George Tillman Jr.

Trailer

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Big Mama, Terri & Miles, Maxine & Kenny, Bird & Lem, Ahmad, Pete, Faith. Sisters have different level of background (laywer, hairdresser, ?)
Wedding of Bird with Lem, dancing & Food. 'We got Food!' Food placed on platter ( 3 min.).
Sunday Dinner at Big Mama, Soul Food tradition. Eating contests (9 min.).
Uncle Pete is a mistery person who locked himself in his room, food is served to him on a plate and placed in front of his room. He collects and closes the door again.
Cooking Big Mama with her daughters. Talk about measure and heart. Taste good by trying things out. Kitchen talk about Terri moneu. Quote: 'Soul Food is cooking from the heart' (10-12 min.).
Sunday Dinner: A lot of dishes, pray before eating, then feast. Passing through of food, serving each other. Nice talk during dinner, a lot of laughs/jokes, but also bitching between 2 sisters about money and successfull. Big Mama ends the discussion, stay family. Cousin Faith walks in, known as troublemaker. Than suddenly second sisters needs to give birth to baby, end of dinner (13-18 min.).
Dinner Teri & Miles at home. Teri is successful lawyer, Miles heart is with music. Tensed conversation, sober food, Money discussion, missing 5000 dollar. Miles took it for the recording of a CD. Faith walks in, she can stay at Terri's and Miles place. She is weraing sexy clothes (29 min.).
Dinner Teri (Lawyer) & Miles (Musician), tensed conversation, sober food. Money discussion/missing, Miles took 5000,- for the recording of a new cd. 'Tomorrow we are getting separate accounts' (29 min.).
Big Moma get surgery but gets wrong, gets in coma.
Sunday dinner discussion, whether or not is going to get through since Big Mama is in hospital. And Sunday dinner is family tradition. Voting session for Sunday Dinner. More people vote for Sunday Dinner (38 min.)
In the end Sunday Dinner doesn't happen. Only Bird and Lem are there. Food is brought to uncle Pete at the door, but he reject the food (40 min.).
Leftovers of Sunday Dinner is passed onto friends of Bird, Bird finds out Lem is being fired (51 min.).
Lunch Lem, Simuel joines and smokes, they fight over Bird (1.00 min.).
Birthday of Maxine, Big cake is brought in by Ahmad, dancing, Terri is sad, she knows her husband cheated on her with Faith (113 min.).
Fight between sisters during dinner about selling the house since Big Mama is in coma. Teri does is for it because she is sad about her personal life (1.17 min.).
Big Momma wakes up, talks to Ahmad about family traditions and the importance of Sunday Dinner, then ends up in coughing and dies (1.20 min.).
Uncle Pete comes out of his room, confuses persons and time but remembers the old days with good food (1.26 min.).
Lunch appointment between the 3 sisters to talk about the house and the possible upcoming sale. Maxine announces she stops the sale, Terri is annoyed and walks of, Bird goes to toilet, cries, Maxine comes to see her in toilet, she says she is pregnant and that Lem will be in prison when baby is born (1.27 min.).
Terri calls friends to get Lem out (1.31 min.).
Victory dinner for Ahmad, he names all the food he wants for the dinner o.a. fried chicken. He is asked when? And Ahmad says sunday at Big Mama's house This is actually an idea to get the family together. He aproaches all family members with a list that Big Mama revealed him that in the house is a lot of money left for him.v One by one they drop in on sunday and they see each other. They find out that it was a list but start to cook together. The 2 sisters start cook, the third one (Terri) comes in and starts to help as well. Can soul food get back our family again. Moment of silence, while women are cooking. Dumplings, deep fried catfish, Mac & Cheese, sweat corn bread. Close ups of cooking, chopping, preparing etc, decoreren, frying. Shots of finished food. During dinner tensed athmosphere, no talkings between the family members. Then heated debate starts of, taking care of your own business vs. taking care of each other, we are family. Terri and Miles go talking during dinner about their relationship, over en weer verwijten. Ahmad is asked to come in, and explains his money list. Ahmad emotional, you are messing up the family, it was Big Mama's wish to have everybody together for sunday dinner. I lied to get everybody back together as family. That was the wish of Big Mama, then suddenly kitchen is on fire, fire is under control, then Pete runs out of room with a big suitcase of money. Big Moma hided the money in Pete's heater. Explain of Soul Food, slaves didn't had much to celebrate so cooking Soul Food became a way to show love for one another. And that is what Sunday dinners meant to us (131-149).
Picking veggies/fruit in garden, all come good (1.50 min.).