Something New (film)

Something New is a 2006 American romantic drama film directed by Sanaa Hamri. The screenplay by Kriss Turner focuses on interracial relationships and traditional African American family values and social customs.

The two unexpectedly meet again at a party at Leahs parents home, where Brian landscaped the grounds. Impressed with his work, Kenya decides to hire him to renovate her unkempt backyard garden. As time passes, their employeremployee relationship evolves into a friendship and then love.Although Brian is helping her feel more comfortable about her living environment, Kenya finds it difficult to dismiss her reservations about their romance. The opinions of her girlfriends Cheryl Wendy Raquel Robinson, Nedra Taraji P. Henson, and Suzette Golden Brooks, her upper class parents Joyce Alfre Woodard and Edmond Earl Billings, and her womanizing younger brother Nelson Donald Faison begin to have a deleterious effect and Brians unwillingness to discuss issues of color drives them apart. ........

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