Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate”
Response to Waiting to Exhale
Though most of us loved Waiting to Exhale, it didn’t sit too well with the men folks who felt it portrayed them in a very negative light. And the producers of this movie, lauded A Thin Line, as a response to Terry McMillan’s book turned blockbuster. In an interview with The Baltimore Sun, Doug McHenry, a producer said,
“This is the male side to the ‘Waiting to Exhale’ coin. We focus on another dimension of African-American relationships, and intentionally move away from the exploitative and violent stereotypes that have depicted our everyday lives up to now. This film is a kind of a blue-collar but balanced response to Waiting to Exhale (1995), in the sense that Waiting to Exhale presented all women as saints and all men as sinners. In our film you have all different kinds of women; you have a class distinction between the men and the women.”
Does this strike anyone else as a nice way of saying there are crazy women out here too?!
