MoviemagiK previews THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS

Release date: September 19,2003

musical comedy

Starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Beyonce Knowles, Faith Evans, Michey Jones, Mike Epps, Steve Harvey

Directed by Jonathan Lynn
Studio: PARAMOUNT PICTURES

all images (c) Paramount Pictures

Cuba Gooding plays an ad executive Darrin Fox and is called back to his hometown when one of his wealthy aunt passes away. The reason being that he is to claim a big inheritance. But the problem is that in order to claim it, he has to do a certain thing- that is to form a gospel choir and make a success out of them.

And it is one of his childhood friend Terri (Beyonce Knowles) who come as his trump card to success.

Initially the movie was written as a Sean Comb starrer. But then since things changed to Cuba Gooding, a lot of the needful rewriting took place. And from the early looks, the movie is all set to please.

Beyonce Knowles is already shooting high at the popularity charts, and after her 'Goldmember' debut, she can look forward to this role that gives her ample scope to exercise her vocal chords too.

Cuba Gooding Jr. unfortunately is still remembered for his outstanding performance of Jerry Maguire and none of his performances after that has managed to revive that brilliance. Not that this film will, but it is high time that he got a major film of his own that he can sit back and claim to be all his.

The comedy is being directed by Jonathan Lynn who had earlier brought us some decent entertainers like Whole Nine Yards, My Cousin Vinny, Sgt. Bilko.

It is no secret that the major USP of this movie will be its musical-ness and one can expect a real good soundtrack for this movie that will feature the biggies in the R&B, Hip-hop and the gospel world of music. And it certainly been a long time since a nice comedy on the lines of Sister Act came along the way.

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