Whitney Houston - Waiting to Exhale, The Preacher's Wife and Cinderella - News

Whitney Houston - Waiting to Exhale, The Preacher's Wife and Cinderella - News
Houston starred alongside Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon in her second film Waiting to Exhale, a motion picture about four African-American girls combating relationships. Houston played the lead character Savannah Jackson, a TV producer in love with a married man. She chose the role as a result of she saw the film as "a breakthrough for the image of black ladies because it presents them both as professionals and as caring mothers". After opening at number one and grossing $sixty seven million within the US at the box workplace and $eighty one million worldwide, it proved that a movie primarily targeting a black audience can cross over to success, whereas paving the approach for different all-black movies such as How Stella Got Her Groove Back and therefore the Tyler Perry movies that have become in style within the 2000s. The film is also notable for its portrayal of black ladies as sturdy middle class citizens versus stereotypes. The reviews were mainly positive for the ensemble solid. The New York Times said "Ms. Houston has shed the defensive hauteur that created her portrayal of a pop star in 'The Bodyguard' seem so distant." Houston was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Actress In a Motion Image", but lost to her co-star Bassett.