Kingdom Come (2001)
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28% of critics liked it
(64 reviews) -
66% of users liked it
(7,563 ratings)
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.… More 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. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi
- Directed By
- Doug McHenry
- Written By
- David Dean Bottrell, Jessie Jones
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Apr 11, 2001 Wide
- Studio
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Mike Clark, USA Today
A heavyset daughter who never talks but eats a lot is named Delightful, which is supposed to be funny. That pretty much sums up the movie's comic tone.
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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
While Kingdom Come follows the formula for comic combustibility, it's even more inert than Bud, who at least comes to life for a brief fantasy sequence.
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
The structure and style are a staple of many traveling black stage shows ... What slays them in the second balcony, though, flattens on the screen.
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Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A mediocre sitcom writ large.
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Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Manages to be profound without being pompous.
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Cast
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LL Cool J
as Ray Bud Slocumb
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Jada Pinkett Smith
as Charisse Slocumb
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Vivica A. Fox
as Lucille Slocumb
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Loretta Devine
as Marguerite
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Anthony Anderson
as Junior Slocumb
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Toni Braxton
as Juanita Slocumb
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Cedric the Entertainer
as Reverend Hooker
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Darius McCrary
as Royce
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Richard Gant
as Clyde
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Whoopi Goldberg
as Raynelle Slocumb
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Masasa
as Delightful
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Dominic Hoffman
as Antoine Depew
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Patrice Monscell
as Merline Depew
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Clifton Davis
as Charles Winslow
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Kellita Smith
as Bernice
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Aloma Wright
as Veda
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Tamala Jones
as Lady #2
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Ellen Cleghorne
as Lady #1
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Natalie Wilson
as Lady #3
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Sandra Nicole Shepherd
as Lady #4
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Tamala J. Mann
as Lady #2
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Tony Paul
as Tiny
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Chuck Campbell
as Pedal Steel Player
- L.L. Cool J.
