Strictly Business

Waymon has a solid career in real estate and a future mapped out, yet he is stuck in a long-term relationship that has lost its warmth. When he falls for Natalie, a stylish woman with a busy social life, he decides he needs help to win her over. He turns to Bobby, a talkative mail room worker at his firm who agrees to coach him in exchange for a chance at the broker training program. The arrangement pulls both men outside their usual habits and pushes each of them to change.

Strictly Business is a 1991 romantic comedy directed by Kevin Hooks and written by Nelson George and Pamela Church Gibson. It was the first of the seven features Hooks directed, ahead of Passenger 57 and Fled. Joseph C. Phillips plays Waymon, Halle Berry plays Natalie, and Tommy Davidson plays Bobby, with Anne-Marie Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and Kim Coles among a credited cast of twenty-one.

The film had a modest commercial footprint, taking in about 8 million dollars worldwide. It holds a 5.4 rating on TMDB from a small number of votes, which indicates limited attention in later years rather than a widely shared verdict.