Soul Food (1997) Vivica Fox, Vanessa Williams, Mekhi Phifer Dvdr

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.





Vanessa Williams ... Teri (as Vanessa L. Williams)



Vivica A. Fox ... Maxine



Nia Long ... Robin / 'Bird'



Michael Beach ... Miles



Mekhi Phifer ... Lem

Brandon Hammond ... Ahmad



Jeffrey D. Sams ... Kenny



Gina Ravera ... Faith

Irma P. Hall ... Mother Joe

Carl Wright ... Reverend Williams



Mel Jackson ... Simuel

Morgan Méchelle Smith ... Kelly

John M. Watson Sr. ... Uncle Pete

M.T. Alexander ... Jada



Lawrence Petty ... Harome