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Lala Anthony Joins Paula Patton In Movie 'Baggage Claim'

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Baggage Claim is shaping up a pretty decent cast. It almost seems as though they’re trying to make a new version of Think Like A Man. La La Anthony is the latest to joined the cast of movie based on playwright/director David E. Talbert’s best-selling debut novel about a flight attendant giving herself thirty days or thirty thousand miles to find a husband.

Paula Patton will star as Montana Moore, the 35 year old unmarried flight attendant on a mission. After her little sister gets engaged, she realizes that she is the oldest of her siblings and the only one who has yet tied the knot. That’s when she gives herself the time slot to snag herself a fiance.

In Baggage Claim, there are four different men are in the running:

“Damon Diesel (a P. Diddy wannabe); Reverend Curtis P. Merewether (pastor of Greater House of Deliverance, Tabernacle of Praise, Worship, and Miracles); pompous attorney-turned-councilman Langston Jefferson Battle III; or Quinton Jamison (a multimillionaire who’s twenty years her senior).”

Anthony joins Patton, Derek Luke, Octavia Spencer, Taye Diggs, Trey Songz, Jill Scott, J Cole, Djimon Hounsou and Adam Brody in Baggage Claim.

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