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"&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;apos;s something new and un-welcome: a timid tear-jerker. Whoopi Goldberg plays Corrina Washington, a &amp;apos;50s-era housekeeper who goes to work for Manny Singer (Ray Liotta), a recently widowed jingle writer with a traumatized 8-year-old daughter, Molly (Tina Majorino). Molly has refused to talk since her mother&amp;apos;s death. Corrina will set Molly straight with laughs, tears and some old-time religion. Corrina and Dad will then shock the bigoted neighbors and Manny&amp;apos;s Jewish parents with an interracial romance. If you think that sounds pretty steamy, think again. Director Jessie Nelson bogs down her semiautobiographical script with muffled emotions and molasses pacing.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goldberg strains hard to compensate. Her &amp;quot;What&amp;apos;s up, girl?&amp;quot; sass has sparked many a movie, and it sure livens up this one. But it&amp;apos;s decades ahead of the script&amp;apos;s time period, as is Corrina&amp;apos;s hip psycho-babble. &amp;quot;Get mad,&amp;quot; she tells Molly, encouraging the kid to express her rage at her mother for dying by pounding a punching bag. Manny even joins in. It&amp;apos;s the kind of dysfunctional-family fodder you&amp;apos;d expect on Oprah, Phil or Geraldo.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;The racial angle is similarly tame. Corrina&amp;apos;s ambition to write about music is thwarted by whitey in the publishing world. Manny is called a nigger lover. But there&amp;apos;s no grand passion. Nelson allows Corrina and Manny a chaste kiss, that&amp;apos;s all. Goldberg and Liotta are two live wires stuck in a virtuous afternoon TV special. &lt;em&gt;Corrina, Corrina&lt;/em&gt; is just the same old yadda, yadda.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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