Different leading man
I feel that this movie would have been a better movie if there was a different leading man. I have a lot of respect for Wesley Snipes as an actor, but I feel that he was not the right actor for this part. There seemed to not be any real chemistry between Wesley and Sanaa, also I think that it's just hard to imagine Wesley as a poor and not fully educated man. I haven't seen all of his movies, but I've seen quite a few, and the only movie that I've seen of his where he didn't play a well to do, articulate or both character was when he was Tremaine in Wildcats. I think that Zora, Claudette and Portia were all cast very well, but what happened to the fourth friend Marie? I guess in retrospect it would have been a useless complication to implement her story into the movie. Also I think it would have been a riot to put the thanksgiving day dinner where Franklin's mother threw mashed potatoes at Zora in the film, but oh well.
"These seconds when I'm shaking leaves me shuddering for days" she says. And I'm not ready for this sort of thing.