In her opening scene, she's not bullying deserving targets but three nice, reasonable guys later, Eva goes off on a psychotically abusive rant against Ray that goes well beyond the comic stereotype of the ball-busting sistah. Brisk and funny imperious Eva is a priceless character and filled with crackling turns-of-phrase, the fable-like film unfortunately suffers from an unnecessary, shoehorned subplot about a trust fund that adds a sour, mercenary undertone, and co-writer-director Gary Hardwick sometimes lets Eva's character slip from benevolent dictator into distasteful monster. Naturally, things don't go quite according to plan. Released February 7th, 2003, 'Deliver Us from Eva' stars LL Cool J, Gabrielle Union, Duane Martin, Essence Atkins The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 45 min, and received a user score of 62 (out. Then, when ramblin' Ray pulls up stakes and leaves town, as he inevitably does after a short while in one place, he'll take the smitten Eva with him, then dump her. Desperate to be rid of Eva, the trio eventually hits on an idea: Pay ladies man Ray Adams (longwindedly billed as "James Todd Smith, a.k.a.
Buttoned-down Tim (Mel Jackson), cop Michael (Duane Martin) and postal-worker Darrell (Dartanyan Edmonds) are defiant but cowed even street-talking Darrell gets as impotently exasperated as Daffy Duck in Eva's presence. Single herself no man can measure up, of course the passive-aggressive Eva guilt-trips her sisters right down to how much sex they should have with their men. Eva raised her three younger sisters after their parents died, and now that Kareenah (Essence Atkins) is a doctor, Bethany (Robinne Lee) runs a beauty salon and Jacqui (Meagan Good) is in college on a scholarship, they're all so grateful they don't see how their big sister's well-meaning meddling backed by statistics, citations, chapter and verse has made them Eva's mindless automatons. Released October 5th, 2002, 'Brown Sugar' stars Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Yasiin Bey, Queen Latifah The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 49 min, and received a user score of 67 (out of 100. Eva Dandridge (the highly promising Gabrielle Union) is known variously as "the sister-in-law from Hell" and "the E word." Smooth and glossy as a gemstone and just as hard, she's a tough-as-her-polished-nails restaurant inspector for the Los Angeles Health Dept.
Sporting the best comedy title in recent memory, this Buppie brew featuring three harried men henpecked by their ladies' controlling big sister makes good on its old-fashioned, screwball premise.