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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $0.95 Features • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 07 October, 2005 DVD Release : 03 January, 2006 |
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The Gospel (Special Edition) description The Gospel is by no means a great movie, but it has enough heart, simple decency, and fine music to make it appropriate viewing for families of all kinds. Director-screenwriter Rob Hardy's story revolves around David Taylor (played in his adult years by Boris Kodjoe), a devout youngster who, disillusioned by the death of his mother and mistrust of his pastor father (Clifton Powell), leaves the fold and goes on to become a hip-hop star. But when Bishop Taylor falls ill and David returns home to find his church in dire financial straits and about to be taken over by the Reverend Charles Frank (Idris Elba), once David's best friend but now a self-promoting, money-obsessed hypocrite, well, let's just say that one needn't be an oracle to predict how things will turn out. So the dialogue is hackneyed and the story short on nuance (the title of David's big hit, "Let Me Undress You," is typical of the general lack of subtlety). What this modest film has going for it is a refreshing dearth of cynicism and pretension, not to mention a total absence of profanity, violence, and graphic sex. And in shedding light on an African-American church's place in its community, a role that is not just spiritual by financial, social, and more, The Gospel also gives us some wonderfully infectious contemporary gospel music, performed by singers like Yolanda Adams and American Idol finalist Tamyra Gray. In fact, the music might even inspire some viewers to check out the music of some of the genre's real-life giants, like the great Rev. James Cleveland. And that is high praise indeed. --Sam Graham |
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| The movie was good with a very strong cast. This movie shows how people can go to church and still have evil thoughts on how to scheme. With those type of schemes, you should never receive a high title, such as: the Pastor of the church. If you're a spiritual person and you haven't seen this movie yet, then you should check it out. There is a positive point to the movie. | |
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