Mr. Church
In a story that looks very emotional when the mother dies and leaves her little daughter alone. That story began in Los Angeles in 1965, when the mother died in mysterious circumstances, and then a black cook comes to live in the house. The life of the girl begins to change when the cook lives with her in one house, where life seems to have changed forever since the arrival of that black man.
25 June 2006, USA
October2002, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
14 December 1969, Surrey, England, UK
18 April 1990, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
8 February 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 September 1960, USA
January 01, 2017
Man, this type of role is really out of pocket for Eddie Murphy. He isn't funny, and he isn't particularly interesting.
September 23, 2016
Murphy's understated portrayal is a highlight in an otherwise heavy-handed examination of the way in which troubled souls come together to form surrogate families.
September 16, 2016
Murphy's low-key but affecting performance is filled with loaded and loving glances. And the restraint becomes the 55-year-old star. If only the film were better.
September 19, 2016
Cliched drama has sad moments, drinking, stereotypes.
September 15, 2016
Somehow Murphy manages to lift his dignified, all-knowing servant character off the page, giving a meticulously composed performance in a vehicle that can't help but feel superficially repackaged.
September 16, 2016
After helming this, an episode of Roots and Best Picture-winner Driving Miss Daisy, Beresford should be forced to join 'Subservient Cinematic Negroes Anonymous.'
September 15, 2016
Get out your handkerchiefs, but don't expect to believe a minute of this vastly improbable tale.
September 15, 2016
Murphy is fine as the title character, although his performance consists mostly of suppressing all of his usual shtick. He certainly doesn't endow Mr. Church with any unexpected depths. But then neither does the script.
September 28, 2016
Very hokey and old-fashioned in its sensibilities, but Eddie Murphy's performance is excellent.
September 16, 2016
There are several things to like about a quiet drama like Mr. Church. But the thing that feels most notable about director Bruce Beresford's story of a young woman and her unique father figure is the presence of Eddie Murphy in the title role.
September 22, 2016
It's repugnant for its dehumanizing view (however unintentionally so) of a black man, and repugnant for its emptying-out of one of the great black performers of the time into a sanitized symbol of acceptable blackness.
September 22, 2016
"Mr. Church" serves up comfort food in an era when every food truck and most indie films offer more interesting fare.
