Former
documentarian Michael Campus (Christmas Cottage, Z.P.G.) takes a more personal approach to Robert J. Poole's oft - revised, oft - improvised - off - of script, showing these characters
as fully realized people, each with his or her own
strengths and weaknesses, all a bunch of gray areas instead of the black and white, both figuratively and literally, of other Black cast films to come out at the same time.
It's not without significance that Vivian's documentary, determined to expose weaknesses in marriages, only reinforces their
strengths, but Bell's script seldom uses the
documentarian's lens
as a sincere mirror for relationship issues that are later exposed or discussed, and then later forgets her for large chunks of its running time.