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A cult classic!

posted 20 years ago by btrue2urself215
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This movie is great. It is especially popular among young black college students. Many of us can relate to the characters and random (weird) situations they get into.

Unrequited love is great to watch, when it’s not happening to you.

I highly recommend this movie to everyone. A cult classic!

I'm looking for more work from Christopher Scott Cherot the writer, actor and director.

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[–] unlikely_protagonist 19 years ago

This is a really great movie and I wish CSC were doing more movies like this.

40oz of Love!

[–] daniel-gordon 19 years ago

G was actually good check it

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[–] aq_23 17 years ago

I'm guess I'm one of the few young black college students that didn't think it was great.

[–] hooper-xxx 16 years ago

Hav Plenty is among my favorite films period and it is my favorite "black" movie, period. It's my Annie Hall.

[–] myinnapeace 16 years ago

Watched it yesterday & I really enjoyed it! Like the movie, The Wood, It is an accurate depiction of Generation X, from a Black perspective! It reminded me of a trip I took at the spur of the moment from NY to D.C., trying to court this girl I was interested in! I can watch this film over & over!

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[–] tobymay 15 years ago

I'm a white guy, and this movie made me feel like i was as much like the characters in the movie as in every other movie i've liked. While it seemed to have a unique aspect of "black folks-ism", it also characterized and brought together a lot of purely human experience. The situations are familiar across the spectrum of the American dating experience, and all-in-all i felt enriched by the experience of it. It made me happy that at least some of us Americans can surpass our diversity and embrace our similarity.

I'm surprised we haven't seen more from the writer/director of this film.

[–] hodie 15 years ago

I'm a white guy, and this movie made me feel like i was as much like the characters in the movie as in every other movie i've liked. While it seemed to have a unique aspect of "black folks-ism", it also characterized and brought together a lot of purely human experience.

I'm a white woman, WAY past my youth, and I enjoyed "Hav Plenty" for the exact same reason. As people we have so much in common, at least present-day black and white middle classes do, and it was so refreshing to see a film with characters who are all black that doesn't tell me I can't really understand it.

It made me happy that at least some of us Americans can surpass our diversity and embrace our similarity.

I think that people whose agendas are solely based on our differences may be thratened by this film. But the aim of diversity in business is based on the desirability of having as many difference kinds of people as possible having input into solving problems. But that corporate diversity is utterly useless if people don't also see the similarities that allow them to work together well.

Honour thy parents. They were hip to the groove too once you know.