Waiting to Exhale looks at life's ups and downs from an underseen perspective -- albeit one that's poorly served by uneven acting and a sporadically interesting story.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Forest Whitaker -
Producer -
Deborah Schindler , Ezra Swerdlow -
Screenwriter -
Terry McMillan , Ronald Bass -
Distributor -
20th Century Fox -
Production Co -
20th Century Fox -
Rating -
R -
Genre -
Comedy , Drama , Romance -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Dec 22, 1995, Original -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Nov 25, 2015 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$64.2M -
Runtime -
2h 1m -
Sound Mix -
Surround , Stereo