The Best Man

Year: 1999
Cast: Taye Diggs, Monica Calhoun, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Melissa DeSousa, Harold Perrineau Jr., Terrence DaShon Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Victoria Dillard
Directed By: Malcolm Lee

Writer/director Malcolm D. Lee, cousin of co-producer Spike Lee, makes an impressive debut in this ensemble piece that plays like a hipper "Big Chill." Novelist Harper (Diggs) heads to New York to attend the wedding of his best friend Lance (Chestnut) and the beautiful Mia (Calhoun). Unfortunately, his soon-to-be-released first novel is a thinly disguised autobiography which alludes to an affair between Harper and the bride-to-be. As other college buddies and old flames show up for the nuptials, past issues and romantic tensions come bubbling back up to the surface. The cast gives good performances across the board, with Howard as the wisecracking and womanizing Quentin standing out in particular.

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