2008 · comedy · action
First Sunday
Directed by David E. Talbert1h 36m2008
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
Our read: First Sunday (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · action entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
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“You want Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan church-hostage comedy with gospel warmth underneath.”
Skip it tonight — Predictable redemption sermons and crude gags will grate on you.
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