Disappearing Acts |  | Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Wesley Snipes, Regina Hall, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Q-Tip
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 1953
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 116 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: HBOD91777D
ISBN: 0783118333
UPC: 026359177729
EAN: 9780783118338
ASIN: B00005ASOO
Theatrical Release Date: December 9, 2000
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
TAKES A CLOSE LOOK AT WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE LOVE REAL. AFTERTHE LAUGHTER AND THE LOVE-MAKING, HOW HARD MUST TWO PEOPLEWORK, AND HOW MUCH MUST THEY SACRIFICE, TO STILL BE THERE THE MORNING AFTER?
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He's a semi-employed construction worker and she's a music teacher with ambitions for a singing career. But when they meet at her Brooklyn brownstone their socio-economic differences melt away--or do they? This is the question that drives this 112-minute HBO movie based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel. Zora wears fabulous clothes, decorates her hardwood-floored apartment with unusual furniture, and dines with her girlfriends at chichi restaurants, while Franklin can't even make regular child-support payments to his estranged wife. She's college educated; he doesn't have his GED. Sanaa Lathan (Love and Basketball) gives Zora dignity and grace throughout the film, while Wesley Snipe's Franklin starts out with those qualities but eventually degenerates into sullenness. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball) starts out strong by making Brooklyn a third vibrant character and creating fun takes on the awkward events in every couple's early stages--meeting the friends, dining with the parents. But she loses her way a bit in the middle and seems to rush the end. With much of the transitional material of the book missing in the movie, female viewers may find the ending tough to swallow. The film is rated R for language, brief nudity (specifically of coproducer Snipes's rear quarters), and sexual content. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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 Disappearing Acts December 30, 2009
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
I must say that it was refreshing to see a great romantic drama. Nice to see that sometimes things don't always go smoothly like in the movies, and that some films are in touch with the people of reality. I loved the love/hate relationship of Wesley and Sanaa. A very good movie.
good romance movie June 7, 2009
Eleanor M. Williams (Woodbridge, VA United States)
I like the point of the movie, you can have a good relationship with someone but you will have to work at it
 Disappearing Acts March 13, 2009
Cammie (South Carolina)
I thought this was a very thoughtful black love story of its time. It was real and I recommend it to all romance fanatics especially of the African-American descent.
Sanaa September 30, 2008
Shanti Claus
This product was in great condition and the shipping was fast. Would recommend Amazon for future puruchaes. Great customer service.
Such A Realistic Movie September 14, 2008
Amber (Georgia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This one will definitely hit home for alot of ladies. It shows how we settle or "compromise" little things, which eventually become big problems. It also shows that sometimes love is 'inconvenient' and happens when we are not suspecting it. This was a very underrated film but it's well worth a watch.
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