The Preacher's Wife | 
 enlarge | Director: Penny Marshall
Actors: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  38 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D24449D
UPC: 786936125016
EAN: 0786936125016
Theatrical Release Date: December 13, 1996
Release Date: August 13, 2002
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This tedious remake of the classic Christmas movie The Bishop's Wife falls on its face by significantly altering the careful design of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert E. Sherwood's story for the original film. In Sherwood's version, a rather wooden, inept bishop and his lonely wife unknowingly take into their lives a heaven-sent angel who aids the former and ends up falling in love with the latter. In this unnecessary update, an inner-city preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his estranged spouse (Whitney Houston) are visited by a celestial goof (Denzel Washington), whose unsolicited offer of help is enough to galvanize Vance's character to fix his own problems. What that means is this: by the second act, there's no reason to have Washington's angel in the story. Even his infatuation with the missus isn't enough to warrant his hanging around this movie; the change is a colossal blunder by director Penny Marshall. Vance ends up stealing the film from Washington, but it's a Pyrrhic victory; for the most part this movie just seems like a series of random scenes between opportunities for Houston to belt out songs. --Tom Keogh
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 The Preacher's Wife September 18, 2008
C. Lupo (Spring Hill, FL)
True meaning of Christmas charity. Many life lessons in this movie, caring, compassion, love and charity.
Excellent movie.
Beautiful & peaceful March 29, 2008
L. Mclott (Milledgeville, Ga United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Washington and Houston are wonderful in this and the Ice skating scene is just so beautiful / graceful/peaceful and romantic . It gives you that warm fuzzy feeling like at Christmas time , and its like you are right there with them a true life scene .
 Entertaining family movie! January 12, 2008
S. Barnett
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Though this movie is several years old, I recently purchased The Preacher's Wife for my family. I find holiday movies woefully lack an African American perspective and I wanted to purchase as item that I could watch with my children that depict people that look like us. My children enjoyed it very much. Whitney Houston is not the best actress in the world; however, that didn't impact our overall enjoyment of the movie.
Warm and Fuzzy December 31, 2007
Candy Sullivan (New England)
Warm, fuzzy, and before Whitney changed for the worst. You really can't go wrong with this.
Best Christmas Movie December 10, 2007
Barbie (Santa Barbara, CA/ Marseille, France)
This is and has been my favorite Christmas movie since it came out. I absolutely love it--- brings joy to the season and reminds you of the real reason.
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