Kingdom Come
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. more..
Director: Doug McHenry
Starring: LL Cool J,Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox,Whoopi Goldberg, Anthony Anderson
Most of the right laughs in most of the right places and some unexpected ones thrown in.
In the end, it's simple warmth and sincerity that make this ensemble piece so disarming.
A hit and miss proposition, with an abundance of laughs and emotional highlights to help brighten the dimly lit corners of cliche-mongering.
Strolls from high sentiment to low humor without a stumble, but without reaching any great depth or height.
It's reduced to glorified refereeing of family squabbles discomfortingly magnified by his frequent use of close-ups.
Best Actress
BET Awards (2002)
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Image Awards (2002)
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