


He wins her over by admiring her spicy beans, which are too hot for the wimps she usually dates.
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The Dandridge family logjam is broken, as we can easily foresee, when Eva actually begins to fall for that big lug Ray (played by LL Cool J, who says after this movie he is changing his name back to James Todd Smith, a victory for punctuationists everywhere). Much of the action centers on a beauty parlor, serving, like the title location in " Barbershop," as the stage upon which daily soap operas are played out to loud acclaim or criticism. The director, Gary Hardwick, often films them cresting a hill, four abreast, hair and skirts flying, arms linked, while straggling after them are their luckless men, left in the rear. The Dandridge Sisters like their local fame and kind of enjoy being under Eva's motherly thumb. The sisters are Kareenah ( Essence Atkins), who won't get pregnant, on Eva's orders Bethany ( Robinne Lee), who Eva won't let live with her cop boyfriend, and Jacqui ( Meagan Good), who is married to a mailman who always feels like there's postage due. After the untimely death of their parents, Eva took upon the task of raising the girls, and has never been able to stop giving the orders-no, not even now that they're grown up.

Union plays Eva, oldest of the four Dandridge Sisters. The movie stars two tall and striking actors, Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J, who have every reason to like each other anyway, even if Union's brothers-in-law were not paying him $5,000 to take her out, make her fall in love, and move with her to a town far, far away.
