Rotten
By and large this is a hollow, laugh-free zone paying lip service to the issue in trite, predictable fashion.
Anna Smith, Time Out
Something New
A romantic comedy with a whole lot of drama.
2006 · 1h 39m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Sanaa Hamri
Overview
Career-minded corporate accountant Kenya McQueen is set up on a blind date with sexy, free-spirited landscape architect Brian Kelly, but backs out when she realizes that he is white. Impressed with his work on a friend's mansion, she hires Brian to design her new home's backyard -- and he sweeps her off her feet. But after a disagreement, her brother's mentor, executive Mark Harper, unexpectedly calls and she starts dating her seemingly ideal man. Kenya must choose between the type of man she always dreamed she wanted or giving in to life's little surprises.
Director and cast
- Sanaa Hamri Director
- Sanaa Lathan as Kenya Denise McQueen
- Simon Baker as Brian Kelly
- Katharine Towne as Leah Cahan
- Blair Underwood as Mark Harper
- Wendy Raquel Robinson as Cheryl
- Donald Faison as Nelson McQueen
- Fuzzy Fantabulous as Himself (voice) (as DJ Fuzzy Fantabulous)
- Stanley DeSantis as Jack Pino
- K.C. Clyde as Waiter
- Taraji P. Henson as Nedra
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
61%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's just too bad that this half-realized concept is tethered to an utterly unconvincing, warmed-over interracial romance rooted more in Harlequin fantasy than social realism.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Rotten
This is an inept and unsubtle romantic fantasy about how black people and white people don't mix.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Rotten
It sometimes seems at odds with itself, vacillating between a realistic presentation of the obstacles black professional women face finding a suitable mate and another bit of Hollywood fluff where their skin color is glossed over.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
The race card is still in play no matter what the social strata, but the message gets lost in the medium of excessive cuteness and too many contrived disagreements in dialogue.
Ted Fry, Seattle Times
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