Strictly Business

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Strictly Business

PG-13,

1991,

1h 24m,

Comedy

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2,500+ Ratings

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Waymon (Joseph C. Phillips) has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless long-term relationship. He meets Natalie (Halle Berry), a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to attract her on his own, he seeks the help of his friend Bobby (Tommy Davidson), a free-spirited smooth talker who works in the mail room at Waymon's firm and utilizes the predicament as leverage to advance in the company.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

2.5/4

There are moments that work, and others that do not (no young man, not even Waymon, could be as uncoordinated on a dance floor as he seems to be). But beneath the plot, which is routine, are a lot of assumptions that are not.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Sep 29, 2005

2/5

Randy Shulman

Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)

Mar 19, 2004

2/5

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Nov 1, 2002

2/5

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

Jul 27, 2002

2/5

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Apr 4, 2019

Classics 90s era movie. This and Boomerang are definently must see.

Mar 29, 2019

Good movie and a decent cast. film debut of Halle berry.

Hagrid M

Sep 6, 2018

Waymon Tinsdale (Joseph C. Phillips) works for a real estate firm in which he is supposed to look for potential clients willing to invest. And as a result of being unhappy with his current girlfriend who is shallow and artificial, upon having lunch with his boss, he does stumble onto a young woman he became infatuated with who had gotten fired from the very restaurant she was working at. And after dropping her pictures on the ground, he would then go on a crusade to find her, and he is unable to do it without the help of his friend, Bobby (Tommy Davidson) who sort of acts like an intern for the firm. And he would upgrade Bobby to a much higher position in exchange for more information about her as well as meet her. .

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Harry S

Apr 9, 2017

Under-rated movie about two guys in the business world. One is a young kid ladies man trying to get out of the mail room and the other is very successful but hates his personal life. They both try to help each other. Tommy Davidson is really good but the lead actor is terrible. He cannot act. Of course Halle Berry is hot as hell.

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Kevin Hooks

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Tommy Davidson

Bobby

Joseph C. Phillips

Waymon

Anne-Marie Johnson

Diedre

David Marshall Grant

David

Halle Berry

Natalie

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Synopsis

Waymon (Joseph C. Phillips) has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless long-term relationship. He meets Natalie (Halle Berry), a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to attract her on his own, he seeks the help of his friend Bobby (Tommy Davidson), a free-spirited smooth talker who works in the mail room at Waymon's firm and utilizes the predicament as leverage to advance in the company.

Director: Kevin Hooks
Production Co: Island World
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 8, 1991, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.4M
Runtime: 1h 24m
Sound Mix: Surround

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