This is a modest but enjoyable romantic comedy about the love life of a high achieving career driven African American woman. Urged by her friends to do more with her life than just work, Kenya McQueen accepts a blind date with a handsome landscape architect, Brian Kelly who just happens to be white much to her surprise.
The film charts the course of their romance as they negotiate their different social standings and navigate the challenges of their romance. For a story set in a fairly worn out genre the film does make some good points about the place of African American women in this country's workplace. Of course it's going to have a happy ending since that is the nature of the beast in these kind of films.
The film has a very attractive couple playing the leads. Sanaa Lathan is the driven accountant and Simon Baker is the laid back landscaper she becomes involved with. They manage to work up a decent amount of couple's chemistry between them.
Something New was notable for having three African American women behind the camera, Sanaa Hamri the director, Kriss Turner the writer and producer Stephanie Allen, the running time is 99 minutes.
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