Lifetime Television will premiere A Day Late and a Dollar Short, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ving Rhames, Anika Noni Rose, Mekhi Phifer, Tichina Arnold and Kimberly Elise on April 19th at 8pm.
Terry McMillan’s New York Times bestseller revolves around the Price family matriarch Viola Price, played by Whoopi, who wakes up in the hospital after suffering from an asthma attack and decides she has to get her family in order or all hell will break loose. Viola will tackle her family’s issues of prescription drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, divorce and other life challenges three generations of Prices are facing. Leading up to the release of the film, Lifetime has released a preview of the upcoming film which shows the dysfunctional family in action.
A Day Late… will reunite Whoopi and McMillian who worked together to bring her novel “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” to box offices in 1998, igniting Taye Diggs‘ movie career. Whoopi also earned an executive producing credit on the project. She has previously worked with Lifetime Network on other movies.
McMillan previously was in talks to bring a sequel to the cult classic Waiting to Exhale to the screen with the original stars Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon and Whitney Houston based on the novel Getting to Happy. Since Houston’s passing in 2011, the movie is said to be going through rewrites.
“They’re still writing. One of our original producers, from the first “Exhale,” is on board. So that’s a good sign, but they’re still working on the script. It’s just how to deal with it [Whitney’s loss]. And probably the best way to deal with it is just deal with it. It’s like what happens in life, in a way. Life is about life in passing, living and dying, winning and losing. So that’s what I know so far,” Bassett told Hufington Post last year.