The Preachers Wife

Love this movie my mom

Classic must watch

Its very difficult to get good christmas films anymore. Here we are in the environs of new jersey-new york with the added star power of denzel washington and a new whitney houson(probably one of her more satisfying performances). The film feels good it has children and singing,gives us a sense of community and how a community can grow and how christians can develop and inspire and hold back a community,and at times how a community can be inspired and renewed by a church and also by the modern forces of large capital as here evinced by the large developers who will buy the church and replace it with a shopping mall, emphasizing the sterility of modern culture,and how our cities really need churches! The locale is around a developer known as hamilton real estate and we are in the modern world and the church community with pastor and estranged wife played by houston,are visited by an enigmatic angel The angel here is not the usual staid boring figure,but notices this community lacks love,and how can it move forward if the love between pastor and his wife has stalled. The pastor notices the angel spends much time in conversation and fun and excitement with his wife going out and conversing in a series of outings,and the pastor upset confronts him,and the angel responds he was just sharing love and at the films end the pastor notes this love,how it renews the community and he now recommits himself to love to the long lost relationship. There is also a subplot about an innocent man being imprisoned and then exonerated and a developer wanting to pull out the church from the community and replace it with a shopping mall. Interesting story! At films end feeled with love the preacher gives a jesse jackson type speech detailing the needs of the community,and we have a parting scene where the angel leaves the pastors wife,filled with love within,the kingdom being within him and he wanted neither to control or hem in or sexually take advantage of the preachers wife,but to shower her with love,and he corrects the jealousy of the preacher,the ideas and fixations in his mind preventing him and the community from growing in love,as the whole world and even the developer at the films end,worships at christmas services. A christmas story,in these days not realistic,but great performances and good twist on old theme gives movie freshness...as well as performances!!

Great movie! The sound track on the streamed version is terrible. I have the DVD and the CD so I know how it is supposed to sound. The choir is too loud overwhelms Whitney Houston and then the dialogue is not loud enough so you have to adjust the volume all during the movie.

Great

This movie takes off from the older Bishop’s Wife starring Cary Grant , Loretta Young and David Niven. This one has a similar plot but very different also. There’s still the angel (Denzel), the preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and the wife (Whitney Houston). Really a very good movie and, with Whitney in it, there’s lots of scenes with her singing….which is absolutely fabulous. She is soooo good! This angel is a contrast to Cary Grant in that you see him enjoying being back on earth as he plays in the snow and eats food. The mother-in-law (Jenifer Lewis) plays a very strong role with some good one-liners (“you can shop but don’t be putting in any layaway”)and the children are even believable. The church choir singing rocks! Gregory Hines does a very credible job as the “bad guy”. He has a great part at the end when he starts to get into the music….fun to watch his transformation. Nice, nice movie….heart-warming.

Funny, great cast, awesome music, great story line.

This is our all time favorite Christmas movie, however, the disclaimer is that I am a pastor. Wonderful musical performances by Whitney Houston and the Georgia Mass Choir. Always enjoy Denzel Washington.

I love the movie but don’t re t from Amazon as the sound quality is so bad we could not hear many scenes no matter volume level.

The movie is very good as well as the actors and actresses. Actress Whitney Houston is good as Julia, actors Courtney B. Vance, Denzel Washington and Gregory Hines are also good as well as actresses Jenifer Lewis and Cissy Houston and singer Lionel Richie. I laughed and cried throughout the movie and it was very inspiring. Whitney was great singing Gospel songs and what a wonderful voice she had! Overall, a very good movie for the entire family. REST IN POWER to the following actors and actresses: Ms. Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963-February 11, 2012); Mr. Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946-August 9, 2003); Ms. Penny Marshall (October 15, 1942 (1943?)-December 14, 2018): You all may be gone but you will never, ever be, forgotten.