![]() The humor in "The Fighting Temptations," like the humor in "Barbershop," isn't based on one-liners or insults, but on human nature. But the movie doesn't depend on an original story, it simply rides in on one before it starts being funny. ![]() There's a funny sequence involving a concert in the nearby prison when the warden ( Faizon Love) says he's got prisoners who can sing better than the choir, Darrin perks up, and before long three prisoners are singing in the choir, wearing their handcuffs and their Sunday best orange convict suits.ĭoes the choir get into the Gospel Explosion? Do Darrin and Lilly find love and happiness? These are not really questions in a movie like this, which of course supplies the obligatory sequence of temporary defeat before ultimate victory. Steve Harvey plays the local DJ who reads his recruiting announcements - which start out by specifying that no one need apply who smokes or drinks, and end by saying pretty much anyone, even a heathen, is welcome. The church choir is small and untalented, and his recruiting efforts are not successful. ![]() She was his childhood sweetheart, and now she may hold the key to the gospel competition - and to his heart.ĭarrin has his work cut out for him. Not just because his creditors are looking for him in New York, but because he's moonstruck by a local singer named Lilly (Beyonce Knowles). Now she's Darrin's enemy, opposed to him leading the choir or perhaps even staying in town.īut he has good reasons to stay. She drove Darrin and his mother out of town 20 years ago by accusing the mother of being immoral because she sang in the local juke joint. ![]() With his credit cards maxed out and creditors on his trail, he stays in Georgia - and gets involved in church politics involving Paulina (LaTanya Richardson), the church treasurer. His aunt Sally dies just as he's fired for falsifying his resume, and he returns home for a reading of the will, which leaves him $150,000 if he'll direct the church choir and get it into annual Gospel Explosion contest. ![]() Cuba Gooding Jr., stars as Darrin, a New York ad executive with roots in the town of Montecarlo, Ga. ![]()
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