Soul Food

Genre: Drama

Worldwide gross$43.7M

Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine's marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family's uses. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband's arrest. Mama Joe's grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table.

🏆 6 wins & 11 nominations

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Director

George Tillman Jr.

Cast

Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long

Released

26 September 1997

Runtime

1h 55m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7 / 10

Votes

9,135

Metascore

68

Rotten Tomatoes

82%

Box office

$43,700,855

Edition

Base