It’s not just that Eva gets nicer - and yes, sexier - as she falls for Ray. And while she’s hard-pressed to appear anything but monstrous in the overstated expository scenes, she subtly conveys a winning vulnerability as Eva lets down her emotional guard. Union shoulders the heavy burden of making a persuasive transition from bitch on wheels to woman in love. But complications arise and the player gets played when - are you sitting down? - true love blossoms. Ray rises to the challenge (“If I can get that woman, I’ll go down in the player hall of fame!”) and Eva slowly succumbs to his charm. Jacqui (Meagan Good), the third Dandridge sister, is married to Darrell (Dartanyan Edmonds), a postal carrier, but she, too, allows Eva to be the dominant influence in her life.Ĭhronically berated and frustrated by Eva, who easily intimidates them by using words with more than two syllables, the three buddies offer $5,000 to legendary ladies’ man Ray Adams (LL Cool J) to woo Eva, theorizing that while she’s taking care of her own business, she’ll be too busy to interfere in theirs. At Eva’s urging, Kareenah (Essence Atkins) delays having children with Tim (Mel Jackson), her husband of three years and Bethany (Robinne Lee) refuses to establish unmarried co-habitation with Mike (Duane Martin), her policeman boyfriend. While her siblings don’t seem to mind Eva overseeing their lives with a whim of iron, the men in their lives certainly do. Aptly described by one character as “the sister-in-law from hell,” Eva Dandridge (Union) is a strikingly beautiful but sternly implacable professional - specifically, a by-the-book public-health inspector - who remains a fiercely protective surrogate mother to her three younger sisters, ever since their parents died many years ago.
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