Eva and Ray fall in love, and Eva even temporarily abandons her shrewish ways. However, when he runs into Eva while at work delivering meat to local restaurants they make amends and begin a relationship. Little do they know Eva has already been offered a new job in Chicago.Īfter a disastrous first date, Ray tells the guys that Eva is too difficult for even him to handle and offers to return their money.
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The guys hire Ray to seduce Eva and convince her to move away with him so they can finally be free of her meddling. Ray is a "Master Player" who can handle even the most difficult women. While the significant others are out at a bar complaining about how interfering Eva is, they come across Mike's old friend Ray Adams. As a result of the combination of her personality and her family's circumstances, Eva's level of involvement in her sisters' lives causes a high level of tension between her and her sisters' significant others (Mike, Tim, and Darrell, respectively). She and her sisters-Kareenah, Bethany, and Jacqui-have been taking care of each other since their parents died when they were young. The title is a play on a line of the Lord's Prayer: "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."Įvangeline (Eva for short) Dandridge works for The Los Angeles Health Department as an inspector, a job most suitable for her bossy and perfectionist nature. It was released to the US theaters on Februby Focus Features, and also stars Essence Atkins, Duane Martin, and Mel Jackson.
#DELIVER US FROM EVA UPDATE#
It is considered by many as a modern update of William Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew.
Forthcoming: Romeo and Juliet in Harlem.
Please note that the material in them, even though I have done some editing to remove more objectionable content, may not be acceptable to all audiences.Ĭlip One: The men try to persuade Ray to date Eva.
I've chosen three representative clips to give you a feel for the film. I feel that this is not a fair reading of Katherine or of women, and the film suffers as a result. Once she does, the shrewishness will be all gone. And the idea they all have in mind is that Eva is shrewish because (not to put too fine a point on it) she hasn't had a man sexually. The younger sisters need to get Eva (our Katherine analogue) out of the way so that they can enjoy their own relationships the men in those relationships hire Ray to get her to fall in love with him, move away with him, and then be dumped by him in some faraway location. I think part of it is the overall interpretation of the story arc. Unlike O, which, as far as I remember, involves African-American culture by way of contrast to white American culture, Deliver Us From Eva is a derivative of The Taming of the Shrew that sets itself entirely in Black culture in America-or, rather, what passes in Hollywood as Black culture, which isn't quite the same thing. I wish there were more derivatives like this it recasts Shakespeare in African-American culture.
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