Hav Plenty Review
by Joy Wyse (jwyse AT onlineworks DOT com)May 29th, 1998
Review: HAV PLENTY
[Wanderlust Pictures]
Starring: Christopher Scott Cherot
Cenoa Maxwell
Review by: Joy Wyse
This movie begins like an amateurish 8mm home movie , but soon at least the quality of the film stock improves. The characters have surnames such as Darling, Savage and PLENTY. It doesn't take a sleuth to realize that the lead female is HAViland Savage, the and lead male is PLENTY, Lee Plenty.
The plot basically concerns the lives of a nouveau-riche black family. Their money comes from computers, music, etc. Although they're rich, Haviland still has the mouth of a longshoreman, letting loose with f... this and f... , more than polite society would ever accept.
Plenty is a homeless guy who is house-sitting for Haviland and caring for her cat. She invites him to her parents' house for the weekend, and strangely, we never hear another word about that cat.
Haviland has just broken up with her boyfriend, a big time recording artist. We are meant to wonder whether she is still in love with him, or really desires Plenty. The other females seem to find Plenty irresistible, which is a bit hard to believe.
This was a very uneven film. I have to admit that there are some very funny moments, yet there was some very wooden acting. It is a sad state when you find yourself looking at the pimple on his forehead, or the beauty mark on the end of her nose. And, you keep wondering about her hair. It doesn't match from scene to scene, and you can't help noticing it.
I never knew where the plot was going, and I don't think that they did either. Surprisingly, it was a bit hit at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
It is not a film that I want to see again, not even on free TV.
I give it a C-
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