Stupid film question!

[VenalWinfrey]

Dear all

This is a bit hopeless but hey, nothing ventured nothing gained, right?! My partner was trying tonight to remember a film that he believes he saw in the mid 90s. This is all I can give you -

There were 3 main female characters
1 was definitely black
He thinks it was Whoopi Goldberg, or someone similar
One of them was dying of some kind of illness

Basically I think the plot summay was something like, they were friends as children, or at college, or highschool friends or something, and then they lost touch, and then they met in later life when this person wanted to reunite them in order to tell them that they were sick. I guess it was a kind of 'appreciating the important things' kind of film, I don't think it was a box office smash, it might even have been a made for TV thing that most of us have not seen. Does ANYONE out there have the faintest idea of what we might be talking about?!

Sorry that I can't give any more information. It's just quite important, because he said to me tonight that there was this speech in the film that was incredibly poignant, and made him cry, and I/we would really like to find out what this film is/was, so we could see it together!

If anyone has any ideas, or potential places we could look to find out info, please let me know. We have traw;ed the imdb website which is pretty good, but somehow cannot find a match for us.

Thanks everyone for your help.

[curiosity]

I asked a very similar question about three friends one black but it was whitney Houston for my friend, the answers I got were "Waiting to Exhale".

[rachel79]

hi venalwinfrey,
Im positive the film you are after is one of the boys, starring whoopi goldberg, drew barrymore and mary-louise parker. its a fantastic film. you can find details of it on www.imdb.com

[rachel79]

sorry, not one of the boys! boys on the side.

[sunflower68]

rachel you are probably right there but I had a thought it could be Now and T
hen http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800246889/detai ls
but having looked it up I don't think it's the one VenalWinfrey is looking for!

[sam100]

hi. know the film you mean...thinking it was the film waiting to exhale....

[helliebobs]

I remember the film but never knew what it was called - made me cry too.

[VenalWinfrey]

Rachel79 thank you SO SO much!! I've been told the boys thing it is!! We'll rent a copy this week.

Thanks everyone for your help on this!!

[rachel79]

I hope you enjoy the film venalwinfrey, maybe get some tissues? x