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A novel by Terry McMillan and later made into a movie in 1995. ''[[Getting To Happy]]'', a sequel to the book was released in 2010.

 

Savannah Jackson ([[Whitney Houston]]) is a successful television producer who holds on to the belief that one day her married lover (Dennis Haysbert) will leave his wife for her. Bernadine Harris (Angela Bassett) abandoned her own career and desires of having a catering business to raise a family. Her husband (Michael Beach) is now leaving her for a white woman. Robin Stokes (Lela Rochon) is a high powered executive and the long-time mistress of Russell (Leon Robinson). She has problems finding a decent man of her own, while waiting for Russell to leave his wife. Gloria Matthews (Loretta Devine) is a beauty salon owner and single mother raising a teenage son (Donald Faison) who is preparing to leave home and travel the world with Up With People. After years alone, she falls in love with a new neighbor, Marvin King (Gregory Hines).

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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Justified almost every single time. Most guys are such assholes in this movie that it's a wonder why a sane woman would even bother give them any time of the day.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]

* [[Big Beautiful Woman]]- Gloria

* [[Chick Flick]] - Subverted. About women but embittered, vengeful and disillusioned instead of all smiley and fluffy with [[Babies Ever After]].

* [[Defenestrate and Berate]]- Bernadine gets dumped by her husband for another woman. This is after she's spent the last 11 years sacrificing her dreams of owning her own business to help him build his. Her reaction? Taking his entire very expensive wardrobe, stuffing it in his very expensive car and setting the whole shebang on fire. And what she couldn't get in the car, she sold. For a dollar.

* [[The Film of the Book]]

* [[Incompatible Orientation]]- Gloria finds out her ex-husband is gay after trying to seduce him when he comes to visit.

** Arguably, the fact that Savannah is essentially the point-of-view character from Whitney's hit "Saving All My Love For You" is worth a few chuckles.

* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Bernardine sets fire to her husbands car, walks away, {{spoiler|and in a painful subversion, proceeds to have a total nervous breakdown.}}

* [[Woman Scorned]]: Hooo boy...

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Almost all of the main male cast.

 

[[Category:Romance Novel]]

[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]