Aug 11-17 Whoopi Goldberg Week: She’s become a corny tv lady these days, but let’s not forget that at her peak Whoopi was one of the funniest people alive.

Zora Matthews (Nia Long) learns from a blood test that the man she thought was her father wasn’t; her mother, Sarah (Whoopi Goldberg), has been lying, as her real father was from a sperm bank. She asked for a smart black guy. She had no idea that Hal Jackson (Ted Danson) was really the father.

Zora and her friend Tea Cake (Will Smith) find out that Hal is a big used car salesman, the kind of guy who’ll fight a bear on TV to sell an automobile. She tells him he’s her father, and he couldn’t care less. But soon, he falls for Sarah and feels like a father to Zora, which is a strange character arc when he comes off as a man who cares about nothing and has a beautiful, much younger girlfriend, Stacy (Jennifer Tilly).

That said, the whole point of this movie is “How could Ted Danson possibly have sex with Whoopi Goldberg?” Then, they started dating in real life, just like pro wrestling love angles that always end up becoming a shoot. Then, after that, Danson was in blackface during a 1993 Friars Club roast. Goldberg wrote some of his jokes and would defend him.

This was directed by Richard Benjamin, so it has that going for it.