Conflict is the source of all drama, so naturally, troubled marriages have always been a popular subject for storytellers. Bill Duke's adaptation of T.D. Jakes' novel Not Easily Broken gives us yet another example of a marriage on the rocks, but it only gets half the equation right. The title comes from a line of dialogue spoken in the movie's first scene by Bishop Wilkes (Albert Hall) as he performs the wedding ceremony of Dave (Morris Chestnut) and Clarice (Taraji P. Henson). He wraps a three-stranded rope around them -- a rope that represents the husband, the wife, and God. He assures them that as long as they make sure they each stay as entwined with God as they do with each other, their bond will survive anything. But, a few years later, their marriage hits a few serious road bumps. Namely, Clarice refuses Dave's requests to have a child because her career is both demanding and successful. One night, on the way to an awards banquet where Clarice will be named Salesperson of the Year, they get into a serious car accident that leaves her nearly crippled. Because of Clarice's wheelchair-bound condition, her mother (Jenifer Lewis), who never approved of Dave, moves in with the couple. Eventually, doctors suggest they hire a physical therapist, so Dave enlists the help of Julie Sawyer (Maeve Quinlan), a woman Dave's best friend wants to date. At first, Clarice is so full of anger that she refuses to be helped, but eventually Julie -- and Clarice's mom -- break through her self-pity, and inspire her to do the hard work required to walk again. However, her difficult recovery widens the emotional distance between Clarice and Dave, and as they drift apart, Dave finds himself drawn to single-mom Julie.

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People the world over were struck with sadness and fear recently, as appalling attacks took place in Mumbai, India. The tragic incidents sent shockwaves through the media, but no one could deny that they also served as reminders of the Indian financial capital's ever growing prominence on the world stage. It's the center of the most rapidly expanding economy in the world, the birthplace of the explosive Bollywood movie industry, and the home to both mind-blowing wealth and destitute poverty. So it's no surprise that filmmaker Danny Boyle chose the city as the setting for his newest work, Slumdog Millionaire, a film being touted as a splendid, brutal, thoroughly modern fairy-tale. Recently, Boyle sat down with AllMovie's own Jason Buchanan to talk about the project, and discuss what it was like shooting on location in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi -- a "megaslum" that's home to over a million people, and that Boyle says is actually a thriving, well organized community.

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