Hav Plenty

Hav Plenty is a 1998 American independent film released by Miramax Films, based on an eventful weekend in the life of Lee Plenty Christopher Scott Cherot, written and directed by Cherot. The film is based on the true story of Chris Cherots unrequited romance with Def Jam AampR executive Drew Dixon.

Upon completion of principal photography, Cherot was out of money again, and it took him almost a year to complete his edit and make a screening print of the film. In May 1997, at his first castandcrew screening in a small screening room in New York City, Hav Plenty producer Robyn M. Greene by chance ran into Warrington Hudlin and Bill Duke in the lobby of the building and invited them up to view the film. Immediately after the screening, Hudlin invited Cherot to participate in the inaugural year of the Acapulco Black Film Festival, now the American Black Film Festival. Cherot accepted on the spot, and one month later, in June 1997, Hav Plenty was the opening night film in Acapulco, the first film at the first festival.After seeing Hav Plenty at the Acapulco Black Film Festival, Tracey Edmonds and Kenneth Babyface Edmonds offered to attach their names to the film and record a new soundtrack, consequently attracting an intense amount of media attention to what was previously a small, obscure independent movie. Three months later, after a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 1997, Harvey Weinstein offered to buy Hav Plenty for an amount between 1.5 2.3million. The entire time that passed between Cherots first obscure screening in New York City to Weinsteins multimilliondollar handshakedeal in Toronto was four months. ........

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