The Best Man Holiday (2013): NIA LONG, SANAA LATHAN, REGINA HALL, & MELISSA DE SOUSA

In this episode, Angie and Steffi discuss the holiday sequel to 1999’s “The Best Man”. It’s time to get into “The Best Man Holiday” (2013) starring our divas of the week: Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, Regina Hall, and Melissa De Sousa. 

For this episode, we combined what would normally be two parts of an episode into one episode because that’s what we used to do when covering movies. However, this will probably change in future episodes. But the first part of this episode is reviewing the movie via various scene discussions, while the second part of this episode is us talking about “The Best Holiday” era in Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, Regina Hall, and Melissa De Sousa’s careers respectively.

During our review, we debate whether these people are actually friends, the ways in which the characters grew and DID NOT grow from the first movie to the sequel, the memorable “Can You Stand the Rain?” scene, and how successful the sequel is.

Then, during our era breakdown, we talk about how the careers of Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, Regina Hall, and Melissa De Sousa’s; discussing their onscreen personas and all of their amazing work in Black Cinema. We also talk about how the film was marketed and why it was the most profitable Black Holiday film in 2013. Plus, two rounds of IMDB’s “Best Four Known For”!

LOGLINE: The Best Man Holiday is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written, co-produced and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. A sequel to Lee's The Best Man (1999), it stars Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau, Monica Calhoun and Melissa De Sousa, all reprising their roles from the previous film. Along with Lee, the film was produced by Sean Daniel.

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TIME STAMPS:

- Housekeeping (01:05)

- Opening Discussions: Movie Intro (04:26)

- Opening Discussions: Our First Viewing Experience & Initial Impressions (06:21)

Part 1: Movie Review

- Scene Breakdowns (18:14)

- Oscar Clip (55:34)

- Letterboxd Rating (58:12)

Part 2: Era Breakdown

- Pop Corn & Pop Stars (60:30)

- Spill the Technicolor Tea (79:02)

- But We Need the Audience to Buy the Album (82:52)

- Tinseltown Showdown (91:20)

- Chaka Khan! - IMDB’s Best Four Known For (91:45)

- Show Me the Receipts (98:05)

- Impact/ Closing Thoughts (99:23)

- Previewing Next Week’s Episode (102:18)