The Preacher's Wife
by Penny Marshall
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Actor: Courtney B. Vance, Denzel Washington, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Whitney HoustonDirector: Penny Marshall
Brand: Disney
Producer: Amy Lemisch
Producer: Bonnie Hlinomaz
Writer: Allan Scott
Writer: Leonardo Bercovici
Writer: Nat Mauldin
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood
Writer: Robert Nathan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Preacher's Wife
Movie Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a must have movie. This movie should not only be shown at Christmas but year round. Whitney Houston is very believable as a Preacher's wife.
Summary of The Preacher's Wife
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2003 Rating: PgThis tedious remake of the classic Christmas movie The Bishop's Wife falls on its face by significantly altering the careful design of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert E. Sherwood's story for the original film. In Sherwood's version, a rather wooden, inept bishop and his lonely wife unknowingly take into their lives a heaven-sent angel who aids the former and ends up falling in love with the latter. In this unnecessary update, an inner-city preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his estranged spouse (Whitney Houston) are visited by a celestial goof (Denzel Washington), whose unsolicited offer of help is enough to galvanize Vance's character to fix his own problems. What that means is this: by the second act, there's no reason to have Washington's angel in the story. Even his infatuation with the missus isn't enough to warrant his hanging around this movie; the change is a colossal blunder by director Penny Marshall. Vance ends up stealing the film from Washington, but it's a Pyrrhic victory; for the most part this movie just seems like a series of random scenes between opportunities for Houston to belt out songs. --Tom Keogh
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