Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304383865 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 630438386X Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: November 04, 1997 Running Time: 124 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1996 Sales Rank: 525
Description: Starring Academy Award(R)-winner Denzel Washington (Best Actor, TRAINING DAY, 2001) and multi-talented Whitney Houston (WAITING TO EXHALE), here's a delightful romantic comedy to send spirits soaring! Washington plays a charming angel named Dudley who's sent to earth to help a young minister (Courtney B. Vance -- DANGEROUS MINDS) and his beautiful wife (Houston) revive their marriage! But things take a hilarious twist when Dudley accidentally falls in love with the preacher's wife. From director Penny Marshall (A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN) and featuring screen favorite Gregory Hines (RENAISSANCE MAN), this critically acclaimed comedy hit also showcases nine dynamic songs by Grammy Award-winner Houston, including the Top 10 hit "I Believe In You And Me."
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Preacher's Wife
True meaning of Christmas charity. Many life lessons in this movie, caring, compassion, love and charity.
Excellent movie.
Rating: - Beautiful & peaceful
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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Warm and Fuzzy
Warm, fuzzy, and before Whitney changed for the worst. You really can't go wrong with this.
Rating: - 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 reminds you of the real reason.
- The Preacher's Wife
- Entertaining family movie!