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List Price: $5.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 7723
Released: June 19, 2001 |
| Our Price: $3.13 |
| Used Price: $2.48 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A construction worker meets an aspiring singer;songwriter. He dreams of his own business; she dreams of fame. As they face the challenges of their chosen paths, they discover together that it's easy to build an affair...and hard to make it last.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Biographies
DVD ROM Features
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Featurette
Filmographies
Interactive Menus
Multiple video angles
Description of Disappearing Acts:
He's a semi-employed construction worker and she's a music teacher with ambitions for a singing career. But when they meet at her Brooklyn brownstone their socio-economic differences melt away--or do they? This is the question that drives this 112-minute HBO movie based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel. Zora wears fabulous clothes, decorates her hardwood-floored apartment with unusual furniture, and dines with her girlfriends at chichi restaurants, while Franklin can't even make regular child-support payments to his estranged wife. She's college educated; he doesn't have his GED. Sanaa Lathan (Love and Basketball) gives Zora dignity and grace throughout the film, while Wesley Snipe's Franklin starts out with those qualities but eventually degenerates into sullenness. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball) starts out strong by making Brooklyn a third vibrant character and creating fun takes on the awkward events in every couple's early stages--meeting the friends, dining with the parents. But she loses her way a bit in the middle and seems to rush the end. With much of the transitional material of the book missing in the movie, female viewers may find the ending tough to swallow. The film is rated R for language, brief nudity (specifically of coproducer Snipes's rear quarters), and sexual content. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Disappearing Acts Reviews:
good romance movie 
2009-06-07 - I like the point of the movie, you can have a good relationship with someone but you will have to work at it
Disappearing Acts 
2009-03-13 - I thought this was a very thoughtful black love story of its time. It was real and I recommend it to all romance fanatics especially of the African-American descent.
Sanaa 
2008-09-30 - This product was in great condition and the shipping was fast. Would recommend Amazon for future puruchaes. Great customer service.
Such A Realistic Movie
2008-09-14 - This one will definitely hit home for alot of ladies. It shows how we settle or "compromise" little things, which eventually become big problems. It also shows that sometimes love is 'inconvenient' and happens when we are not suspecting it. This was a very underrated film but it's well worth a watch.
the book was better
2008-08-01 - i liked this movie, but i enjoyed the book alot more. they both played their roles really well, but it was kind of boring at times to me.
