Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 04/11/2001(USA)
Release Date: 09/25/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Based on the play
Dearly Departed by
David Dean Bottrell and
Jessie Jones (who also penned this screenplay), this new comedy from the director of
Jason's Lyric looks at a family gathering after one of their clan dies of a stroke. In the midst of a sweltering summer, the Slocumb family convenes. They include Charisse (
Jada Pinkett Smith), the long-suffering, frustrated wife of philandering Junior (
Anthony Anderson); there's also the Bible-spouting Marguerite (
Loretta Devine), who prays to save her hard-living son Royce (
Darius McCrary) from a life on welfare. Lucille (
Vivica A. Fox) is the devoted family peacekeeper who is struggling with a money-grubbing funeral director, and her husband Ray Bud (
L.L. Cool J) has major contempt for his family and wishes he were burying them instead.
Kingdom Come also features
Cedric the Entertainer as an intestinally challenged reverend and
Whoopi Goldberg as the family matriarch.
~ Jason Clark, All Movie Guide
;)
