Nappily Ever After
2018 · Movie · 100 min · ★ 7.2 · 65% critics
After a mishap at a hair salon shakes up her routine, a woman starts questioning the life she’s built around meeting other people’s expectations. With help from an encouraging new connection, she begins putting herself back together and learning what it means to feel truly free.
Based on Nappily Ever After
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Streaming on Netflix.
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Details
- Years
- 2018
- Release date
- 2018-09-21
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 65/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (827 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a feel-good, relatable romantic comedy about self-acceptance and starting over, with a cozy, familiar vibe like Something New; Not for you if you hate clichés or want big surprises.
Pros: empowering self-discovery message; relatable beauty pressures; light romantic moments | Cons: predictable rom-com beats; uneven pacing; ending feels rushed
Themes
- romcom
- hair
- woman director
- barber
- black hair
Cast & crew
Sanaa Lathan
as Violet Jones
Ricky Whittle
as Clint
Ernie Hudson
as Richard Jones
Camille Guaty
as Wendy
Lyriq Bent
as Will
Lynn Whitfield
as Paulette Jones
Catherine Dyer
as Susan
Brittany S. Hall
Racquel Bianca John
as Crystal
Tracey Bonner
as Erika
Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour