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Waiting to Exhale : Opening Sequence

On New Year's Eve, four women in separate households navigate relationships with the men in their lives.

Opening Sequence

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Credits, Opening, beat, emotion, close-up, deep focus, extreme close-up, eyeline match, full shot, handheld camera, low angle, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, mirror shot, mobile framing, montage, music, nondiegetic, opening sequence, pan, reaction shot, shot/reverse shot, shot/reverse shot, tracking shot, traveling shot, two-shot, voiceover narration, zoom-out

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman

"Opening Sequence " in Waiting to Exhale. Directed by Forest Whitaker, 20th Century Fox, 1995, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2869

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Courtney Burnett

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