The Preacher's Wife (1996)
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The Preacher's Wife
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| Directed by | Penny Marshall |
| Cast | Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine, Justin Pierre Edmund, Taral Hicks, Cissy Houston and Courtney B Vance |
| Theatrical Release | December 13, 1996 |
| DVD Release | August 13, 2002 |
| Running Time | 124 minutes |
| MPAA Rating | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| UPC Code | 786936125016 |
| Buy this item | $11.49 at Amazon.com
As of Sep 4 3:17 EDT (details)
1 DVD, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Usually ships in 24 hours, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language)
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About The Preacher's Wife
This 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 Amazon.com
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(37 reviews)
Washington and Houston are wonderful in this and the Ice skating scene is just so beautiful / graceful/peaceful and romantic . It gives you that warm fuzzy feeling like at Christmas time , and its like you are right there with them a true life scene .
March 29, 2008 |  | Entertaining family movie! |  |
Though this movie is several years old, I recently purchased The Preacher's Wife for my family. I find holiday movies woefully lack an African American perspective and I wanted to purchase as item that I could watch with my children that depict people that look like us. My children enjoyed it very much. Whitney Houston is not the best actress in the world; however, that didn't impact our overall enjoyment of the movie.
January 12, 2008Warm, fuzzy, and before Whitney changed for the worst. You really can't go wrong with this.
December 31, 2007This is and has been my favorite Christmas movie since it came out. I absolutely love it--- brings joy to the season and reminds you of the real reason.
December 10, 2007I'm just now watching this in 2007 but this is still a wonderful movie for the family especially during Christmas time. This is a wonderful movie to always keep in your library of movies.
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