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The Fighting Temptations (2003)

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Reviews Counted:105

Fresh:44

Rotten:61

Average Rating:5.4/10

Consensus: The music is the only saving grace in this predictable and eager-to-please comedy.

Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) has just lost his job with a New York advertising firm and bill collectors are chasing him all over the city. But just when he thinks his luck has completely run... Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) has just lost his job with a New York advertising firm and bill collectors are chasing him all over the city. But just when he thinks his luck has completely run out, Darrin discovers he's the only surviving relative of his Aunt Sally who has just left him $150,000.00. Traveling back to his small hometown of Montecarlo, Georgia, to attend the funeral and collect his inheritance, Darrin soon discovers that Sally's written a tiny catch into her will. Her last wish is that her beloved nephew create a choir, enter it in the annual Gospel Explosion and bring home a victory. Between the bickering and the difficulties finding talented singers in the community, not to mention that his heart just isn't into the whole thing, Darrin has his work cut out for him... until he meets Lilly (Beyonce Knowles). A beautiful jazz singer with a voice to match, Lilly awakens feelings in Darrin he didn't know he had. Suddenly, collecting the money or heading back to New York City aren't important anymore, and he realizes that Aunt Sally left him something much more than an inheritance. -- © Paramount Pictures [More]

Starring: Cuba Gooding, Beyonce Knowles, Mike Epps, Latanya Richardson

Starring: Cuba Gooding, Beyonce Knowles, Mike Epps, Latanya Richardson, Steve Harvey, T-Bone, Wendell Pierce, Rue McClanahan

Director: Jonathan Lynn

Director: Jonathan Lynn
Screenwriter: Elizabeth Hunter, Saladin K. Patterson
Producer: David Gale, Loretha C. Jones, Jeff Pollack
Composer: Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, James "Big Jim" Wright
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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11/26/03
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

All about the music, and you'd have to be truly tone-deaf not to respond to its soaring harmonies and spirited spirituality.

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11/18/03
Neil Smith
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BBC
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It feels more like an artificial fable than a story we can sink our teeth into.

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11/16/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

The indifferent gospel music that permeates the movie never solidifies with the dramatic might that the genre is known for...

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
06/14/09
Cole Smithey
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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review

Although there are plenty of positive, feel-good elements to this movie, they are outweighed by missed opportunities to do something more valuable.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
09/26/06
LaTonya Taylor
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Christianity Today

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07/16/05
Paul Sherman
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Boston Herald

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Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
03/14/05
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

...the plot's stupid, the writing's bad, the acting is barely professional, but the movie isn't evil.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/27/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

You might think this prodigal would learn to take responsibility for his lies ... or humbly accept the consequences of his crimes and change. Nope.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

As a romantic comedy...neither exceptional nor groundbreaking. But as a musical, the movie bursts with foot-stomping, arm-swaying, finger-snapping gospel music.

Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | comment Comment
06/25/04
Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

The Fighting Temptations is a movie that will soften even the most cynical moviegoer. You can see most of it coming a mile away, and it still works.

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01/01/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Down-home, good-natured sense of humor, but a sitcom-ish sentimentality often veering between Sunday sermonizing and silliness.

Full Review Source: Long Island Press | comment Comment
12/31/03
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press

hopelessly sub-standard feel-good fare

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12/12/03
Tom Grealis
Tom Grealis
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Cuba Gooding Jr. [is] so animated a performer that he even appears to be overacting on this movie's poster.

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11/10/03
Matt Brunson
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10/24/03
Jim Shelby
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