Mr. Church

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Cast & Crew

Eddie Murphy
Henry Joseph Church

Britt Robertson
Charlotte "Charlie" Brody

Xavier Samuel
Owen

Natascha McElhone
Marie Brody

Lucy Fry
Poppy

Christian Madsen
Larson

Mckenna Grace
Izzy

Natalie Coughlin
Young Charlotte

Madison Wolfe
Young Poppy

Lincoln Melcher
Young Owen

Kathleen McMartin
Mrs. Dickerman

Bruce Beresford
Director

Susan McMartin
Screenwriter

David Anspaugh
Executive Producer

Fredy Bush
Executive Producer

Yu Wei Cheng
Executive Producer

Brad Kaplan
Executive Producer

Scott Karol
Executive Producer

Lawrence M. Kopeikin
Executive Producer

Dennis L. Pelino
Executive Producer

David Tish
Executive Producer

David Buelow
Producer

Mark Canton
Producer

Lee Nelson
Producer

Courtney Solomon
Producer

Mark Isham
Original Music

Sharone Meir
Cinematography

David Beatty
Film Editing

Marisol Roncali
Casting

Mary Vernieu
Casting

Joseph T. Garrity
Production Design

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Audience Reviews for Mr. Church

• Oct 22, 2016

  This is a rare film in the sense that it is probably one of Eddie Murphy's best performances in a very, very long time. That says something. The story was enjoyable, heartfelt and heartwarming and I really enjoyed it.
  

  Ian W Super Reviewer
• Oct 05, 2016

  While Mr. Church might have initially been looked at as something of a return to quality movie-making for star Eddie Murphy it is more a return to the realm of inoffensive movie making than anything else. Mr. Church is certainly no Pluto Nash or Norbit...hell, it's not even Meet Dave (which I admittedly never finished), but it isn't the high-reaching piece of transcendent cinema that encapsulates all the major themes of one's life that illustrates mistakes made and identities redeemed that it seemed to want so badly to be in its trailers either. Rather, Mr. Church is a pleasant enough distraction about a kind-hearted man that is largely elevated by the credible performances of its two leads. Both Murphy and Britt Robertson (Tomorrowland) deliver the necessary sympathies to draw on audience emotions that keep us invested in the sometimes tedious story that strings us along for decades with large stretches where little to nothing happens or is revealed. Fortunately, it isn't really the narrative that is meant to drive Mr. Church though, but rather the core relationship that forms between Murphy's titular character and Robertson's Charlotte Brody which remains the reason we become and stay as invested as we do throughout the sometimes tepid 100-minute runtime. The film, which comes from TV writing veteran Susan McMartin in her first feature film credit, feels rather episodic as a result with director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Double Jeopardy) doing little to add any filmmaking flairs as, at the age of seventy-six, seems to be on auto pilot. In that way, Mr. Church is very much a competently made and sometimes even emotionally affecting film, but most of the time it feels like a Hallmark movie that is emotionally manipulative for reasons of knowing it has little else to offer by way of connecting with its audience. It is a holiday Hallmark film that escaped the clutches of such a fate by appealing to talent such as Mr. Murphy by being a project not typically offered to the comedian and thus an opportunity after an intentional hiatus to do something different. Murphy, while doing his best to salvage this sappy if not occasionally comforting piece of melodrama can't rescue the project from total mediocrity, but he puts forth a valiant effort and that is duly noted. read the whole review at www.reviewsfromabed.com
  

  Philip P Super Reviewer

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