Just what I expected

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Even tho miss Ross is credited with the costumes designs for this film. The fashion show sequence was a ripoff. The kabuki gowns and her purple costume for the fountain scene were direct direct ripoffs from the famous and great ERTE. The late Russian artist. Her gold kabuki gown was horrid her design. The multi colored pleated gown was OK. But no earth shaker. The white Galitzan gown look terrible on her. She was to thin for that look. As a fashion picture this film has much to be desired. She did wear some nice things in the film. But not sure if she had a hand in those also. I know some designers like be difficult to work with. But her scene where she was berating the seamstress. Made me angry you get nothing from yelling at people who don't understand your language. I would have clocked her if she spoke to me that way. lol Evan Divas have to come down off the pedestals sometime.

Love the Oscar nominated song-Do You Know Where You're Going to? It is sung as the theme throughout this film.I was expecting a Diana Ross performance as I saw in her nominated "Lady Sings the Blues" of 1972. Unfortunately, I didn't get that. In fact, much of the supporting cast lives up to the word mahogany as they are quite wooden here. Jean Pierre Aumont, always capable, of throwing wonderful performances as in "Sins," Nina Foch, as Ross's boss, and Beah Richards as Aunt Florence, are really quite stiff here.The picture belongs to Billy Dee Williams as a Barack Obama-like Chicago organizer, who is the endearing part of Ross's life. Other then some temper tantrums, Ross could have better job here. He sees politics as related to all in life and his performance shows it as well.Anthony Perkins is an older extension with his boyish looks from the Bates Motel. He really goes over-the-top here as a fashion photographer off his rocker.The theme is that success and money can't buy everything. What else is new?

Berry Gordy's love letter to Diana Ross is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. Unfortunately, it's really not supposed to be a comedy. What little story there is is solely a lame excuse to stitch together montage after montage of Diana Ross images. In fact, I haven't seem this much unabashed admiration for a female lead since Streisand did "The Mirror Has Two Faces". Frankly, the only thing saving this flick from zero stars is Anthony Perkins's ultra-campy performance of the photographer who gives Ross her big break. While Perkins definitely was over the top, at least he was interesting. My wife says that this movie is for people who like fashion and design. But in my opinion, I say avoid this flick unless you have some sort of weird Diana Ross fetish.

This is a coming of age film. Black films of that era focused on topics that involved the very worst of the Black community. This was one of the first films of the 70's that championed self-improvement and empowerment. Gordy successfully attempts to move beyond "Blackplotation" films of that time. In doing so, the film genre and the community it describes is what comes of age.If you listen to the dialog Williams and Ross had as they walked through the shelled out community and then walked those same contrived, multi-million dollar Townhome/condo communities today you will have a much greater appreciation for this forward thinking, insightful film, Mahogany.