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The new show is set in the same hospital, but with younger, hipper characters, "as if the cast of Beverly Hills 90210 had all graduated and become doctors" (Sharon Bernstein, the Los Angeles Times ). Despite its unsoap-operatic pace--prime-time quick, with rap music to boot--it basically sticks to the soap formula of good and evil characters, love affairs, and tear-jerking scenes.
Critics find Waiting to Exhale director Forest Whitaker's latest chick flick guilty of the genre's worst defects: tear-jerking melodrama, shots of little girls with stuffed animals, and the "emotional range of a sympathy card" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Some predict that Sandra Bullock's performance--as a prom queen who returns to her hometown after her husband cheats on her--will only deepen her midcareer funk.