Sweet Nothings

TITLE: MADE IN AMERICA

DIRECTOR: RICHARD BENJAMIN

WRITER: HOLLY GOLDBERG SLOAN

THE BOTTOM LINE: An easygoing mainstream comedy solves contemporary racial and sexual issues too comfortably.

She's a celibate single mom; he's a shiftless stud, currently shacked up with a dimwitted aerobics instructor. She's the owner of an Oakland, California, bookshop specializing in black studies; he's the proprietor of, and TV pitchman for, a car dealership. She wears authentic African garments to work and rides a bicycle everywhere; he favors inauthentic cowboy duds and hogs the road in a four-by-four. Oh, yes, she's black, and he's white.

But Made in America...

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