"Waiting to Exhale, " is about four middle-class black women looking for happiness.

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Jennifer Westfeldt stars in this new comedy, which she also wrote and directed, as Julie, a New Yorker looking for love, sex, and happiness, though not all at the same time.

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In the summer of 2002, after the tech crash had humbled Silicon Valley and set back Wall Street, I hopped into my little Cessna 172 airplane and flew around the U.S. I was looking for people who had found success and happiness in other places smaller places.

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