Traditional women's picture, transplanted to the exotic locale of a black Louisiana backwater, and touched up with trendy occultism: clairvoyance, voodoo, "magic realism." A first effort by actress-turned-writer-director Kasi Lemmons, who's highly sympathetic but none too commanding in her new roles, overdependent on an undependable child actress (Jurnee Smollett). The juiciest role -- a self-styled "psychic counselor" and the sister of a tomcatting family man -- belongs to Debbi Morgan, long-time regular on the daytime soap opera, All My Children, and she is actually allowed to speak the line, "Y'all are my children." With Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, and Diahann Carroll. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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