The Fighting Temptations (2003)
43 %
Reviews Counted: 103 Fresh: 44 Rotten:59 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
Theatrical Release: Sep 19, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $30,213,026
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 out, Darrin discovers he's the only surviving relative of his Aunt Sally who has just left him... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Cuba Gooding, Beyonce Knowles, Mike Epps, Latanya Richardson, Steve Harvey
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
Screenwriter: Elizabeth Hunter, Saladin K. Patterson
Producer: David Gale, Loretha C. Jones, Jeff Pollack
Composer: Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, James "Big Jim" Wright
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Although there are plenty of positive, feel-good elements to this movie, they are outweighed by missed opportunities to do something more valuable.
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09/26/06
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01/26/06
...the plot's stupid, the writing's bad, the acting is barely professional, but the movie isn't evil.
01/27/05
You might think this prodigal would learn to take responsibility for his lies ... or humbly accept the consequences of his crimes and change. Nope.
01/15/05
As a romantic comedy...neither exceptional nor groundbreaking. But as a musical, the movie bursts with foot-stomping, arm-swaying, finger-snapping gospel music.
06/25/04
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01/15/04
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.
01/01/04
Down-home, good-natured sense of humor, but a sitcom-ish sentimentality often veering between Sunday sermonizing and silliness.
12/31/03
All about the music, and you'd have to be truly tone-deaf not to respond to its soaring harmonies and spirited spirituality.
11/18/03
It feels more like an artificial fable than a story we can sink our teeth into.
11/16/03
Cuba Gooding Jr. [is] so animated a performer that he even appears to be overacting on this movie's poster.
11/10/03
Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles bring us a rousing film about a gospel choir... too bad it goes straight to hell.
10/07/03
This film would have been better with a lot more gospel and a lot less Gooding.
10/01/03
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