THE BEST MAN (1999). Written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee (and co-produced by his cousin, Spike), this comedy brings together a set of upwardly mobile buppies for the marriage of football star Lance to the angelic Mia. The wedding weekend gets long indeed for guest Harper when an advance copy of his novel, a thinly veiled account of the loves and lives of his college buddies, falls into the wrong hands and the groom, reading between the lines, discovers a long-lost liaison between his best man and his bride-to-be. Lee's winning cast (Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Sanaa Lathan) is dazzlingly attractive, but his script burps when it needs to fizz. Only Terrence Howard as Quentin, the resident cynic, transcends the material -- his sly, bebop delivery hints at what a less generic, better Best Man could be.

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