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5 mistakes. Continuity mistake: When the family is at the funeral home and the audience can see the casket, it has a picture of angels riding up to heaven. It is very colourful and eye catching, but at the church during the actual funeral, the casket has all red cloth covering the inside of it. Visible crew/equipment: In the very last scene ...
Apr 11, 2001 · Whoopi Goldberg plays the calm and unblinking widow of the just-deceased (in the first scene) Daddy Bud Slocumb, a man nobody in their rural California town much liked, including her. When the ...
Apr 11, 2001 · Roger Ebert April 11, 2001. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. In an opening scene of "Kingdom Come," the Whoopi Goldberg character's husband drops dead at the breakfast table. This triggers a funeral, and Raynelle Slocumb (Goldberg) welcomes her children, in-laws and descendants to a disorganized family reunion in which three or ...
Kingdom Come: Directed by Doug McHenry. With LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine. When a despicable family member thankfully expires, his relatives gather to comfort one another--and to settle old scores.
Movie Review. It takes a patriarch’s death to unite the Slocumb clan. When Daddy Bud keels over at the breakfast table his extended family gathers for the funeral. Everyone’s got baggage. Ray Bud and his wife struggle with infertility. Junior’s marriage desperately needs stability and trust. Royce’s chief ambition is collecting welfare.
- Doug Mchenry
Diverse members of a large rural African-American family come together -- and play out a range of old issues that have long faced them -- as they prepare to bury the family patriarch, a man who has had his own share in emotionally complicating their lives. Rating. R.
LORETTA DEVINE plays a sanctimonious aunt who's concerned about her less than ambitious son. DARIUS McCRARY plays that son whose chief ambition is to live off welfare. He smokes, apparently drinks and does other things (we see a bong and empty beer bottles in his place), and presumably fools around with a woman.
