Something new — and very special — indeed. First-time feature director Sanaa Hamri's virtually perfect romantic comedy is a marvelous mix of brains and heart that confronts serious questions about race and dating with sensitivity, humor and enormous sex appeal. Raised in the rarefied air of African-American high society, Kenya McQueen (Sanaa Lathan) has always been an overachiever, thanks in large part to the pressures placed on her by her socially conscious mother (Alfre Woodard) and the illustrious example set by her father (Earl Billings), the chief of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai. A debutante at 16 and educated at Stanford and Wharton, Kenya is now a highly place...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins