The ladies are preparing for a spa day when Mia collapses while trying to hang an ornament on the Christmas tree. Later, Candace returns and reconciles with Julian through dialogue. Not long afterwards, Candace loses patience with Shelby and confronts her, which leads to a physical altercation after which Candace leaves the house with her and Julian's daughters. She tries to use it to coerce Julian to resume his previous relationship with her but Julian refuses. Mia reveals to Harper that she was diagnosed with cancer more than a year ago and it's terminal but that she needs Harper's help to guide Lance coming to terms with it.ДЄt breakfast the next morning, Q and Shelby accidentally switch phones and Shelby finds Candace's video on Q's phone. It is when Harper goes down to the kitchen that he finds Mia throwing up blood. 'Everybody needs somebody, Jordan,' Brian says.ДЄmong other things, on another night the band has a good after-dinner time with the men dance and lip-sync to ' Can You Stand the Rain' which Mia notes works well to patching up old wounds between Lance and Harper. As he leaves, Jordan tells him that, while she loves him, she does not need him. At dinnertime, the old friends catch up but old tensions resurface and grow.Д«rian leaves for his family's annual Christmas gathering in Vermont. Julian confides in Quentin.ДЄll the friends arrive at the house, the first time they've come together in 14 years.

It is then that Julian finds a YouTube video of his wife stripping and accepting money for sex at a fraternity party. His main donor, however, abruptly terminates his relationship with the school when he learns of Candace's past. The Murch family now includes two little daughters and Julian finally opened and runs a renowned school, with his wife former stripper, Candace, as his head of admissions. Harper reluctantly agrees to the biography, but keeps the idea a secret. Though Harper and Lance are on good enough terms to maintain an acquaintanceship, Lance makes it a point to keep an emotional distance. Harper's agent suggests that Harper writes a biography of his estranged best friend, Lance, who is set to retire from football. Years after his debut novel, Harper is struggling with writer's block and financial difficulties, having been recently relieved of his faculty position at NYU, compounded by his wife having difficulty conceiving. Q is now a successful brand manager and heavily connected to prominent celebrities. Shelby is living the dreamed life as a cast member of a popular The Real Housewives television show franchise, and is now a prominent reality television star. Mia Sullivan ( Monica Calhoun), wife of Lance Sullivan ( Morris Chestnut), has sent letters requesting that the old gang joins them for Christmas: Harper Stewart ( Taye Diggs) and his almost-ready pregnant wife Robyn ( Sanaa Lathan), Julian 'Murch' Murchison ( Harold Perrineau) and wife Candace Sparks ( Regina Hall), her best friend Jordan Armstrong ( Nia Long) and boyfriend Brian McDonald ( Eddie Cibrian), Quentin 'Q' Spivey ( Terrence Howard), and Shelby Taylor ( Melissa De Sousa). ( March 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The film received multiple accolades and nominations, including being nominated four times at the 45th NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Motion Picture, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (Chestnut and Howard) and Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Lee). It was a commercial success, grossing $71 million worldwide on a production budget of $17 million. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of the cast, Lee's direction and the dramatic elements, with some criticism aimed at the screenplay. The Best Man Holiday was released on Novemby Universal Pictures. Highly anticipated, the project was announced in October 2011 and principal photography began in April 2013 in Toronto, Ontario.

Along with Lee, the film was produced by Sean Daniel. A sequel to Lee's The Best Man (1999), it stars Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau, Monica Calhoun, and Melissa De Sousa, all reprising their roles from the previous film. The Best Man Holiday is a 2013 American comedy-drama film written, co-produced and directed by Malcolm D.

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