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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305668428
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6305668426
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: August 01, 2000
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 3782
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 1999
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
It looks like writer-director Rick Famuyiwa started a popular trend with his marriage-jitters comedy about three friends who reminisce about their lives together as one prepares to leave the group when he gets married. Everyone who rushed to see The Best Man should catch this sleeper which also stars Taye Diggs (as Roland, the reluctant groom), as well as Omar Epps and Richard T. Jones, who together provide charming, cheerful performances full of warmth and humor. This buddy story is told through flashbacks to 1986, when the three met at public school. The young men gain our affection in their competition to win the most girls, which enhances the bond of loyalty we see in them as men on the eve of Roland's wedding. The casting of the boy actors is almost spooky in its perfection, especially Sean Nelson (who had already proven his acting acumen in American Buffalo) as the younger version of Epps. Although the cast is African American, there's no color bar to the themes or entertainment the movie offers, providing a salient lesson to network TV producers under attack by the NAACP for their inability to include characters of color in TV shows. Instead of stereotyping the characters by placing them in 'the hood,' where gang members and tragedy rule, this life-affirming comedy depicts the lives of members of 'the wood,' which refers to Inglewood, a middle-class suburb of L.A. that general audiences will find easy to relate to. --Lloyd Chesley
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of My Favorite Movies
I had lost this movie a while back and just bought it again and I swear when I go over to my movie collection this is one of the movies I can watch more than once. This movie is so real, reminds me of some of my older cousins
Rating: - The Wood DVD
I was surprised to learn that I had not seen this movie prior to purchasing this DVD. It is a great movie! I am glad to have it as part of my collection.
Rating: - Classic
dis movie iz real fun 2 watch. it'll bring u back 2 dem dayz when u had hella friendz n actually enjoyed goin 2 school. i highly reccomend this.
Rating: - A GREAT MOVIE!!!!
One of my favorite films. An excellent film with a great cast. It shows you how friends will always be there for each other, and of course your first crush!!!!!
Rating: - Love it
This is a great movie about how friends grow together. Very funny and the guys were good looking.
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