Plot summary
Wait to Exhale centers in quadruplet successful African-American women & their relationships by owning men and of these an additional. Tons of the babies come "holding their breath" until the day it could sense comfortable around the committed relationship by using a human.

Robin (Lela Rochon) is the long-time mistress of Russell (Leon), who keeps renegue on his promise to leave his married woman for her. She dumps him to buy the human she may keep around to herself, however her dates by having the dependable however unattractive business partner (Wendell Pierce) and the drug addict (Mykelti Williamson) send her back to Russell. Savannah (Whitney Houston) is a successful television producer who also believes that her married lover Kenneth (Dennis Haysbert) will leave his married woman. Bernadine (Angela Bassett) is the affluent woman world health organization abandoned her have career to raise a personal. Her married man is currently allowing her to marry an additional woman. Gloria (Loretta Devine) is the beauty salon creator & lone mother raising a teen boy. Fallowing years alone, she lessens enamored sustaining the recently neighbor, Marvin (Gregory Hines).

A women part their stories across dejeuner & conversations at Gloria's salon.

Cast
Whitney Houston as Savannah 'Vannah' Jackson Angela Bassett as Bernadine 'Bernie' Harris Loretta Devine as Gloria 'Glo' Matthews Lela Rochon as Robin Stokes Gregory Hines as Marvin King Dennis Haysbert as Marvin King Mykelti Williamson as Troy Michael Beach as John Harris, Sr. Leon as Russell Wendell Pierce as Michael Davenport Donald Faison as Tarik Matthews Jeffrey D. Sams as Lionel Jazz Raycole as Onika Harris Brandon Hammond as John Harris, Jr. Kenya Moore as Denise

Trivia
Director Forest Whitaker was the unanimous number 1 selection of the film's producers & film writer.

Although Whitaker got earliest directed an HBO drama called Strapped (1993) --for which he received Better Newly Director honors at a Toronto Film Festival-- this film was his first job directing the good-length feature.

Forest Whitaker stated within an locate sustaining Ebony Magazine that Robin Givens and Halle Berry were among the women world health organization auditioned for the role of Robin. Fallowing casting Angela Bassett and Whitney Houston, he decided to go using proportional unknowns for a more ii roles, & the role of Robin was later on given to Lela Rochon.

The hit song Exhale (Shoop Shoop), sung by Whitney Houston, is on the soundtrack to this film.