Fruits of the Heart

I was casually watching the film. It wasn't until near the end of the movie when I realized the familiar story of Terms of Endearment. The characters had similar storylines to the Oscar winning movie, and it flowed well to keep my interest. The longer I watched, the thought nagged me that I knew where the story was heading.

Wendy was excellent and carried the film. Her character was played just as well as Shirley McClaine.

I took the movie for what it was, an original film for a cable television network that their viewers would enjoy. It was not groundbreaking story plot, it was entertaining.

This film starts as a wholesome with a vision to be heartwarming which is the main point I think but using tropes of struggling young mother whose marital life she is trying to deflect that of her own parents but finds herself in similar to worst predicaments is just cliche. For starters Lil Mama decides to take back a cheater after her own mother berates the man for having no goals and the admittance of him being a cheater. Yeah, we can blame this on the absent father causing his daughter to have issues with men but the direction of the film fails to show that in the character development. It is almost as if BET+ is just allowing anything on their networks with out a little quality control.

If they keep this up we going to have tubi cheap movies or worst, those SyFy network television films where the acting and effects of the camera work are just horrible. The storyline in this films lacks structure consistency and the actors the breathing room to perform without looking at clock it is just a huge mess and it makes the network look bad.