If you are a career driven woman like me, then this movie is a must watch for you…there’s so much to learn from it!

Our movie of the week is ‘Married But Living Single’.
Cast: Funke Akindele, Joseph Benjamin, Tina Mba, Joke Silva, Kiki Omeili and Femi Brainard.

Produced by: Kalejaiye Paul
Directed by: Tunde Olaoye

We all know Funke Akindele for her comic roles (not being able to speak proper English) and razzness in movies, but in ‘Married But Living Single’, she breaks out of that role, tries out something new and does a good job of it.
When the movie actually started, watching Funke Akindele speak “proper English” was kinda funny but I got used to her new role later on, lol, thumbs up Funke!

The movie tells the story of an ad executive who has a problem with work life balance.
Set in present day Nigeria, Kate (Funke Akindele), an ambitious young woman, is desperate to climb the corporate ladder so fast and attain career fulfillment, even to the detriment of her family.

Kate is hell-bent on achieving and affording the finer things of life as she expends a lot of time and energy on her job. Her commitment to her career makes her lose a grip on her husband, her child, and her home.

She crowned it all by not traveling with her husband, Mike (Joseph Benjamin) to India for surgery. The Doctor advised that his wife should take a leave and come with him to hasten the recuperating process, Kate agrees to go with her husband, but as they are about to travel, Kate is torn in between traveling to help her husband recuperate and winning the biggest account ever for her company.

She didn’t even fulfill her promise of picking him up at the airport, come on!!!

Of course this only gives room for yet another ambitious young woman, Titi (Kiki Omeili), whose own ambition is fueled by her deep passion to land a good man for herself.

Titi makes herself available and, naturally, Mike is enamored with her. Before long both are locked in a steamy hot affair.

There is also Lola a family friend of Kate’s who tries her best to keep her home against her better judgment even when faced with frequent emotional and physical abuse visited upon her by her short tempered husband Patrick (Tunde Olaoye).

Her refusal to wake up and smell the coffee was her undoing. With no consideration for their daughter who had to live the through mental and emotional abuse, which will most certainly live permanent scars in her life, Lola stuck to her guns and remained in a bad marriage until one morning she just didn’t wake up!

The excellent satiric plot of this movie touches on all aspects the family—relationship, trust, neglect, and emotional and physical abuse, as are evident in our daily living.

The movie teaches that the foremost ambition of any couple should be how to strike a balance between work and family and the trick is to know where to draw the line.

Thumbs up!
a) Funke Akindele did a phenomenal job as the ad executive. She was able to translate emotions into the screen and you found yourself understanding her point of view and walking her struggle.
b) Joke Silva is damn so good! She interpreted her role as Funke’s boss well enough, I could feel her!
c) Loved the positive display of African culture through the use of Ankara wears in major scenes in the movie…it was really colorful!
d) The picture quality, sound and background music was perfect!

Thumbs down!
a) The opening award scene should have been shorter and the dancing scene (at the end) was unnecessary.
b). Whoever casted Joseph Benjamin and Funke Akindele as hubby and wifey did a terrible job, there was no chemistry between them. Funke Akindele and Joseph just didn’t have any sparks as I didn’t quite get that “oomph” that would have made your heart sing just watching them.
c) Joseph forgave his wife easily…hello, he was supposed to make her suffer at least and ignore her for a while but he forgave her just like that …..oh well!

That said, y’all should see the movie and learn. The bottom line is we all need to find that balance.

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Vis movie was awesome its a great stride in the collapsing nollywood industry bravo expecting more laurels

deolascope:
d) The picture quality, sound and background music was perfect!

Really?
okay!

Hmmm....sounds complicated...too many sub plots.

It was on an average level for me. I agree there is no/little chemistry between Joe and Funke