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You wanna know what essentially has killed movies in the last few years? A lack of faith.
Craig Zadan, who produced the 1984 hit that made Kevin Bacon a star, had to literally fight to make the movie happen. As he explained in a documentary on the Special Edition DVD, nobody at Paramount believed in […]

Released around the time of such black-themed movies such as Love Jones and Soul Food, Hav Plenty was the low-budget cousin of the bunch. The script was run-of-the-mill, the cast was unknown, and the only selling point for seeing it was that Babyface was attached to it (musically and financially). 9 years after the original release of the film, I can still watch it. I can’t say that about other films I’ve always thought as favorites.

The film centers around Lee Plenty (Christopher Scott Cherot) who is a teacher’s assistant at New York University and an aspiring writer. We first meet him on the couch of Havilland Savage (Chenoa Maxwell) watching a video of her engagement to Michael Simmons (Hill Harper) who is a popular R&B singer. Its okay, he doesn’t like her anyway. Or does he?