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The Preacher's Wife

starring: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis
directed by: Penny Marshall

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936125016
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 3407
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1996



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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2003 Rating: Pg

Amazon.com:
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



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Preacher's Wife
True meaning of Christmas charity. Many life lessons in this movie, caring, compassion, love and ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Beautiful & peaceful
Washington and Houston are wonderful in this and the Ice skating scene is just so beautiful / graceful/peaceful ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Entertaining family movie!
Though this movie is several years old, I recently purchased The Preacher's Wife for my family. I find holiday movies ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Warm and Fuzzy
Warm, fuzzy, and before Whitney changed for the worst. You really can't go wrong with this.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best Christmas Movie
This is and has been my favorite Christmas movie since it came out. I absolutely love it--- brings joy to the season and ... Read More

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