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KINGDOM COME (2008)

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Release Date: Apr 11, 2001; Rated: PG; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Toni Braxton, Cedric the Entertainer, Vivica A. Fox, Whoopi Goldberg and LL Cool J...; Distributors: Fox Searchlight Pictures and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

By Caroline Kepnes

Caroline Kepnes

Based on screenwriters David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones' play about a family that reunites over the passing of their gruff daddy, this claustrophobic series of spats and monologues -- LL Cool J broods, Fox pops nerve pills -- may as well be stamped Intended-Only-For-The-Stage. Still, it's pretty funny when Mama (Goldberg) wants ''mean and surly'' inscribed on her husband's tombstone and pretty damn unintentionally funny when Jada Pinkett Smith lip-synchs. The story lacks a center (Daddy Bud dies as the movie begins), but it's got a little soul.

Posted Sep 28, 2001

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