Like Waiting to Exhale, The Wood and The Best Man before it, this sharply written film spurns cinema's usual African-American stereotypes and focuses on the universal themes of romantic commitment and the bonds of friendship. Four well-to-do young black men have to reassess their lives, loves and loyalties when one of their lifelong friends suddenly announces that he's getting married, despite having once sworn to remain single for ever. In the characters' familiar fears of commitment, there are sharp echoes of real life; these give the film potential for success with an audience beyond the African-American community it portrays.

This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy") who call themselves "The Brothers". When the playboy gets engaged, the other three friends find themselves having to come to terms with their own issues of commitment and honesty...