L. continues to get me watching Black movies that I should have seen years ago. I really liked this one. The Best Man Holiday was exactly how I would imagine all of these people being like years after the first movie. Harper is a trash person still. I know that time has passed but he is still not shit and I am sure that I should see him differently but I just can't. He a snake and was called one and I agreed so damn much. Everyone decides to meet at Lance's place for the holidays. Lance is close to retiring from the NFL and breaking a rushing record. Harper has not sold a book that has done as well as his first in years and has almost no money left on top of the fact that his wife Robyn is pregnant and has struggled to carry a child. Jordan is dating a white dude and Harper has the nerve to act some way over her being in a relationship. Murch is not able to get more finding for his school after an old video of his now wife Candy (the stripper he fell for) comes out. He wont tell her about it but treats her like trash because of it. His old girlfriend Shelby is now on one of those Housewives type shows where she is famous and just fights folks. Quentin is doing well and is still a horndog and the best part of these movies.
During the visit Harper is trying to find a way to get information from Lance about his life and career in the hopes of writing an autobiography about him. He tries to be sneaky instead of just asking. We also find out that Mia, Lance's wife, is dying of cancer. Harper tries to lecture Lance on how to get her more treatment as if they have just been praying on it. He is also keeping money information away from his wife Robyn because he doesn't want to stress her out while she is pregnant. Jordan ain't sure if she wants to stay with her dude. Shelby ends up finding out about Candy's video. Its a whole mess. I don't wanna spoil the rest of this because there are some other weird ass people out there that have not seen this movie all these years later like me. Though there is some super sadness at times this movie was still really good in terms of pacing and it seemed to fly by faster than the first movie. There was no out of the blue nonsense and folks making up when they shouldn't have. Another one of these movies is supposed to come out (eventually) and I'm not mad about it.
Taye Diggs as Harper Stewart
Sanaa Lathan as Robyn Stewart
Nia Long as Jordan Armstrong
Morris Chestnut as Lance Sullivan
Harold Perrineau as Julian "Murch" Murchison
Terrence Howard as Quentin "Q" Spivey
Monica Calhoun as Mia Sullivan
Melissa De Sousa as Shelby Taylor
Regina Hall as Candace "Candy" Sparks
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