strictly business
Warner Home Video
Long before they graced Oscar’s red carpet, Halle Berry and Samuel L. Jackson appeared in Strictly Business, which tells the story of Waymon Tisdale (Joseph C. Phillips), a black man with issues regarding his blackness. Tisdale falls for Natalie (Berry), but his inability to embrace black culture inhibits him from making a love connection. The film is blessed with intelligent dialogue on race relations and romance. Jackson shows glimpses of his Pulp Fiction performance in his role as a preachy mailroom manager. – gavin philip godfrey