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‘The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat’ Review: A Star Trio Carries This Slightly Tempered Version of Inseparable Friends Novel
Ain’t no mountain high enough to daunt Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean in this adaptation of the bestseller 'The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat.'
One gets the sense that director Tina Mabry doesn’t intend to spoil the fun either so much as emphasize the feisty fealty she practiced in adapting Edward Kelsey Moore’s 2013 novel, which centers on lifelong friends Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean, who’ve dubbed themselves after the famous Motown trio. As the gifted pianist (who now teaches piano in town) Clarice, Uzo Aduba makes clear that her character sees all when it comes to her philandering husband Richmond, and is becoming ruefully aware that she has lived too long a life of compromise. Watching the trinity of Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean — with their complications and challenges — there’s a lot to enjoy in this adaptation, which Mabry co-wrote with Cee Marcellus (the pseudonym for “The Woman King” director Gina Prince-Bythewood).
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