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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.
Reviews for Preaching to the Choir
One just wishes that with the word 'choir' in the title, there would be a lot more top-drawer gospel singing.
A religious feel-good message, first and foremost. As for drama, well, it's a distant second.
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.
A sappy, redemption-soaked story about two Harlem-raised brothers that is as old as the Bible itself.
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.
Not even the presence of Eartha Kitt can bring this negligible and amateurish work to life.
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.
Despite the ungainly script and direction, the climactic performances -- including one by young singer Anny Jules --absolve the movie of most of its sins.
Both [lead] actors are as likable as everything else in this dulcet entertainment.
Filters its lessons through contemptuous twin brothers before settling on the redemptive power of gospel music sung by a church ensemble.
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