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Preaching to the Choir (2006)

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Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Theatrical Release: Apr 14, 2006 Limited

Box Office: $343,522

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 Harlem gospel church while Te (Billoah Greene) perpetrates the gangster lifestyle as Hip Hop... 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]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Darien Sills-Evans, Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje, Tichina Arnold, muMs da Schemer, Roger Robinson

Director: Charles Randolph Wright
Story: Monica Lengyel Karlson
Composer: Nona Hendryx

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 6, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.78

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital Surround Sound Stereo 2.0 - English
  • Additional Release Material
  • Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
  • 2. Steve Harvey - DON'T TRIP...HE AIN'T THROUGH WITH ME YET Theatrical Trailer
  • 3. STREAMING FAITH Commerical

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Chris Kaltenbach
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A blasphemous blaxploit!

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

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04/25/06
Thomas Peyser
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
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One just wishes that with the word 'choir' in the title, there would be a lot more top-drawer gospel singing.

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04/20/06
Bob Longino
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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2.5/4

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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04/17/06
Sean O'Connell
Charlotte Weekly
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A religious feel-good message, first and foremost. As for drama, well, it's a distant second.

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04/14/06
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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2.5/4

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.

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04/14/06
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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If ever there was an aptly titled film, it's Preaching to the Choir.

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04/14/06
Tom Long
Detroit News
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2/4

A sappy, redemption-soaked story about two Harlem-raised brothers that is as old as the Bible itself.

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04/14/06
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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The movie has a few rough edges, but the music brings it home.

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04/14/06
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
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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.

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04/13/06
Jean Nash Johnson
Dallas Morning News
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Formulaic but innocuous.

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04/13/06
Chuck Wilson
L.A. Weekly
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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.

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04/12/06
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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Despite the ungainly script and direction, the climactic performances -- including one by young singer Anny Jules --absolve the movie of most of its sins.

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04/12/06
John Anderson
Variety
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Both [lead] actors are as likable as everything else in this dulcet entertainment.

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04/12/06
Matt Brunson
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