Kingdom Come

2001 Comedy

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

Reviews

  • Most of the right laughs in most of the right places and some unexpected ones thrown in.

    Bob Graham - The San Francisco Chronicle

    26 April 2013

  • In the end, it's simple warmth and sincerity that make this ensemble piece so disarming.

    Jay Carr - The Boston Globe

    26 April 2013

  • A hit and miss proposition, with an abundance of laughs and emotional highlights to help brighten the dimly lit corners of cliche-mongering.

    John Petrakis - The Chicago Tribune

    26 April 2013

  • Strolls from high sentiment to low humor without a stumble, but without reaching any great depth or height.

    Sara Wildberger - Miami Herald

    26 April 2013

  • It's reduced to glorified refereeing of family squabbles discomfortingly magnified by his frequent use of close-ups.

    Mike Clark - USA Today

    26 April 2013

Awards

  • Best Actress

    BET Awards (2002)

     
  • Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

    Image Awards (2002)