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Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

johnqacts This is far & away the best work Murphy has done in many years. Wonderful story. Great to see Bruce Beresford directing again. All of the girls & women playing Charlie are very good. Don't miss this one & then tell your friends.

Pascal Charpentier I usually write those reviews for "extreme" reasons. If everybody hated a movie and I didn't. Or the other way round. Turns out there is another reason. When an actor who was once a star "comes back" with a stellar performance. Mr. Church is that film.Murphy delivers a heart wearming performance. He is the soul of the movie. I guess we will never know why Murphy so rarely appears on the screen but If you watch him here you can't help yourself wanting to see him more often.Don't get me wrong. This movie has problems and it is corny, sometimes a bit too much. But it is a film for families about families and a heartwarming one at that. Thats why it surely is no 10 rating but also no 4, 3, 2 or even 1 rating. If you want something for the family, if you like films like Forrest Gump and if you like Murphy, this is your movie.One thing I wanted to say when I read the official critics. They complain about an Afro-American being the servant. If you think that, you clearly didn't get the movie at all. He is basically father, husband. grandfather in one person. So if you saw him as a servant, you should really think about what that says about you.

rickiemjames Eddie gets so close to the comfort zone.Huge respect Mr. Murphy , you are so close! this is a very engaging drama- the heaviness between the players is very well written. Great work "writer'! Where it drops is the accents for the times. And how underprivileged, talked to, no offense "white people".I worked for the US government as a temp, My boss was not "white" I had huge respect for that man, but since he went to collage in the days of oppression, I felt a sense of fear, which I never endused.The Director missed this!Sadly I still see this today with older people that lived in that time.

Sienne I am not very familiar with most of Mr. Murphy's work, so I don't know a lot about what he's done. However, I do know this ... very few actors can inhabit a character as Mr. Murphy did. There was no Eddy Murphy in this movie; there was only Mr. Church, fully embodied and precisely nuanced and so true-to-life that you expect to find him in the kitchen the next morning ... which, since this is a true story, is entirely fitting. Well done, Mr. Murphy. Well done.