The Best Man (1999 film)

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Up-and-coming author Harper Stewart (Taye Diggs) travels to Los Angeles for a wedding and is forced to deal with the fallout once his friends start to recognize themselves in his thinly-veiled autobiographical novel.

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Tropes:

• Big Man On Campus: Lance, in the college flashbacks.
• Career Versus Man: Jordan
• The Casanova: Quentin
• Dance Party Ending
• Evil Redhead: Shelby
• Expository Hairstyle Change: used for the college flashbacks
• Henpecked Husband: Julian
• Hooker With a Heart of Gold: "Candy"
• I'm a Man, I Can't Help It: Quentin's philosophy
• Men Don't Cry: Averted by Lance during his wedding ceremony
• Moment Killer: The skipping CD
• My Girl Is Not a Slut: Mia
• Ready for Lovemaking Jordan and Mia, separately.
• Retroactive Recognition: This is often considered to be Oscar nominee Terrence Howard's breakout role.
• Shirtless Scene: Harper
• Spear Counterpart: To black female-centered films like Waiting to Exhale
• They Do: Lance and Mia
• Those Two Actors: Most of the principal actors have made at least one other film with one one of their castmates, but this film is the second of three turn-of-the-century romcoms that Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs appeared in together.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Jordan and Harper