Based on an eventful New Year's Eve weekend in the life of Lee Plenty (Christopher Scott Cherot). Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her home for New Year's Eve, they start to build up a romance.
Based on the true story of Cherot's unrequited romance with Def Jam A&R executive, Drew Dixon. This film takes a look into love and what can come of it if you act on it or if you let it go. Its one of those movies that makes you think about life and the many choices that one must make all in the name of love.
In June 1997, Hav Plenty would be the opening night film at the inaugural Acapulco Black Film Festival (now the American Black Film Festival), it would also be the first film at the first festival. After seeing Hav Plenty at the Acapulco Black Film Festival, Tracey Edmonds and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds offered to attach their names to the film and record a new soundtrack, consequently attracting an intense amount of media attention to what was previously a small, obscure independent movie.
Some might would call this film a "low-budget goodie" and that actually kind of works too! Something interesting that I would learn about the production of this movie was that financing for the film came from Cherot's time as a New York City cab driver and a third mortgage on his mother's home. Principal photography took eighteen days in and around New York City and New Jersey.
"With his self-deflating cool and amused insight into the shallowness of the buppie world in which he drifts, Lee is one of the most original and likable characters to pop up in a movie in quite a while." ~Stephen Holden of the New York Times
Check out one of my favorite songs from the soundtrack...
2 comments:
This is a good one GBreezy! I like to watch this movie from time. How did you like his second movie? I think it was called "G".
I enjoy this movie every time I watch it!! And yep I liked "G" as well, another good one!
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