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The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat Throwback to Friendship & Community

There are people you meet for a reason, a season and a lifetime.  All life flows it becomes very simple to figure out who your squad or tribe of women are. Having a tribe of women  you can call a friend is special, but having a tribe for a lifetime is truly a gift.

Adapted from Edward Kelsey Moore’s novel of the same name, audiences are privileged to follow the lives of Clarice (Uzo Aduba), Barbara Jean (Sanaa Lathan) and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Odette) as share an unbreakable bond from decades of weathering life’s storms. Through new shades of heartbreak, the trio are put to test as they face challenging times even they don’t see coming.

This film is pure unadulterated joy to watch the best of the brightest Black talent on screen together melted as one by a yummy score from composer Kathryn Bostic.  At it core, this a film about relationships between friends, abusive parents, parents with tough love, women, interracial love.

The love and joy witnessed onscreen can only filter from the top with its brilliant, homegrown director Tina Mabry. Mabry has a a way of pulling out the organic without the actors even delivering a false note or moment.

All three women are at their absolute best exuding strength, tenacity, humor and warmth that only Ellis-Taylor, Aduba and Lathan could do. Lathan and Ellis-Taylor are delivering moments that will have audiences leaning into the screen with holding their breath.  Aduba embodies a woman who when given the chance to shine, decide to do so unapologetically. Women, who will illustrate to a a younger generation, that while it s great to have companionship, it should not define your past, present or your future. Their younger counterparts (Kyanna Simone, Tati Gabrielle and Abigail Achiri) match their seasoned alters with exuberance, grace and vivacious.

The men are holding their own.  Russell Hornsby, Mekhi Phifer and Cleveland Berto are spectacular.  Hornsby, in particular will have audiences sneering proving that he knows well how to inhabit the good, bad and ugly of a man who is clearly in love, yet struggles to stay vibrant within the confines of marriage.

The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat is a love story to friendship, self-preservation and love community throwing back to simpler time when life was just a little easier,

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