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Preaching to the Choir (2006)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:5

Rotten:9

Average Rating:4.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Estranged since the death of their parents years ago, twin brothers, Teshawn and Wesley Tucker, have taken radically different paths in life. Wes (Darien Sills-Evans) has become a minister in a... Estranged since the death of their parents years ago, twin brothers, Teshawn and Wesley Tucker, have taken radically different paths in life. Wes (Darien Sills-Evans) has become a minister in a Harlem gospel church while Te (Billoah Greene) perpetrates the gangster lifestyle as Hip Hop star Zulu. They are forced into reconciliation when Te flees from LA to his childhood home in Harlem to hide from his enraged record producer, Bull Sharky (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). Te tries to disappear in his preacher brother’s world of the gospel church but becomes entrenched in the community and finds himself reconnecting with his past by becoming involved in the failing church choir. There, he is comforted by Aunt June (Novella Nelson), his loving surrogate mother with a musical past, and is falling for Kia (Janine Green), a lovely church goer with her fingers on the pulse of the history, and magic, of Harlem . As Bull Sharky and his posse move east tracking Te down, Te and Wes must confront their own demons and attempt to work out their differences. Through the intersection of gospel and hip hop, east coast and west coast, the sacred and the secular, Preaching to the choir weaves a story of unconditional love and redemption, a story of community. -- © Codeblack Entertainment [More]

Starring: Tichina Arnold, Patti LaBelle, Tim Reid, Ben Vereen

Starring: Tichina Arnold, Patti LaBelle, Tim Reid, Ben Vereen, Roger Robinson

Director: Charles Randolph Wright

Director: Charles Randolph Wright
Story: Monica Lengyel Karlson
Composer: Nona Hendryx
Studio: Codeblack Entertainment, LLC.

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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
05/06/06
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One just wishes that with the word 'choir' in the title, there would be a lot more top-drawer gospel singing.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
04/20/06
Bob Longino
Bob Longino
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Nor does it sermonize at the expense of entertaining. Instead, it melds gospel and hip-hop for a music-driven tale of twin brothers who reconnect.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
04/14/06
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle

The movie has a few rough edges, but the music brings it home.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
04/14/06
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
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Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/14/07
Chris Kaltenbach
Chris Kaltenbach
Los Angeles Times
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Formulaic but innocuous.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
04/13/06
Chuck Wilson
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly

A religious feel-good message, first and foremost. As for drama, well, it's a distant second.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
04/14/06
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

Preaching to the Choir seeds adequately in the very fertile genre of black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's Wife.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
04/13/06
Jean Nash Johnson
Jean Nash Johnson
Dallas Morning News

Despite the ungainly script and direction, the climactic performances -- including one by young singer Anny Jules --absolve the movie of most of its sins.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
04/12/06
John Anderson
John Anderson
Variety
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A sappy, redemption-soaked story about two Harlem-raised brothers that is as old as the Bible itself.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
04/14/06
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press

A blasphemous blaxploit!

Full Review Source: EURWeb | comment Comment
05/24/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
EURWeb

The singing and songs -- written by Nona Hendryx, former member of R&B group LaBelle -- get better as the movie wears on and as the plot dictates. But the same can't be said for the script.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
04/12/06
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Both [lead] actors are as likable as everything else in this dulcet entertainment.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
04/12/06
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

Filters its lessons through contemptuous twin brothers before settling on the redemptive power of gospel music sung by a church ensemble.

Full Review Source: Charlotte Weekly | comment Comment
04/17/06
Sean O'Connell
Sean O'Connell
Charlotte Weekly

Not even the presence of Eartha Kitt can bring this negligible and amateurish work to life.

Full Review Source: Style Weekly (Richmond, VA) | comment Comment
04/25/06
Thomas Peyser
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

If ever there was an aptly titled film, it's Preaching to the Choir.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
04/14/06
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
 
 
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