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Cover (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 12

Fresh: 0

Rotten:12

Average Rating: 3.2/10

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for mature thematic material, sexual situations and language, violence and some drug content.

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Feb 22, 2008 Limited

Synopsis: When Ryan Chambers is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading... When Ryan Chambers is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known. --© American Cinema International [More]

Starring: Vivica Fox, Aunjanue Ellis, Louis Gossett, Patti LaBelle

Starring: Vivica Fox, Aunjanue Ellis, Louis Gossett, Patti LaBelle, Mya, Paula Jai Parker, Richard Gant, Razaaq Adoti, Omer Farooq Alvi, Tomorrow Baldwin Montgomery, Sakinah Bingham

Director: Bill Duke

Director: Bill Duke
Screenwriter: Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, Aliya Jackson
Studio: American Cinema International

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Cover is a social-problem film without a solution. While not of the first rank, its inventory of Philadelphia's hot restaurants and cool sights is an occasion for civic pride.

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02/28/08
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment 1 Comment
02/27/08
Village Voice
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Director Bill Duke aims for social awareness, but delivers second-rate melodrama instead.

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02/26/08
Peter Debruge
Variety
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A perfect storm of movie badness.

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02/26/08
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Approached as comedy, Cover is a riot.

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02/22/08
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine

So overwrought that it quickly crosses the line into unintentionally funny and never recovers.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
02/22/08
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Would be a candidate for the year's most unintentionally funny movie so far - if it weren't also the most homophobic.

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02/22/08
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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The flesh is weak but the spirit is indestructible in Cover, a ham-fisted morality tale.

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02/22/08
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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Entertaining in a way the filmmakers probably weren't intending.

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02/21/08
Geoff Berkshire
Metromix.com

Duke appears to be aiming for a Tyler Perry-style mix of the taboo and the saintly, but his touch is so leaden that one ends up giggling, not weeping.

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02/21/08
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly

A cinematic disaster which attempts to address a pressing social issue, but only fails miserably in the process.

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02/19/08
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

This reprehensible effort is not only an embarrassment to Duke, but to everyone involved ... the offensively homophobic message behind this movie is not the only thing that makes it truly awful.

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02/19/08
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

Fo shizzle, if it doesn't attain the well-deserved status of a camp classic, only the straight-to-video aesthetic will be to blame.

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02/17/08
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
 
 
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