What a waste of my time!!!

Powerful

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

I watched this film only because it was part of my Amazon Prime membership and I was blown away. Eddie Murphy offers a performance that is so unexpected, so genuine, I forgot he was the same comedian/actor who made such disappointments like "Norbit." If you need a good chick-flick or want a good cry, grab your Kleenex and watch "Mr. Church."

Do not want to give away any spoilers here. Just have to say that this movie is absolutely beautiful. Bravo Eddie Murphy and entire cast. Kept my wife and I on the verge of tears for the duration. Just beautiful! Thanks!!

Yes, it is a tear jerker. So what? In fact i haven't seen an 11 Kleenex movie in a decade until this one, which i discovered on Amazon Prime. This movie is about family. We all know by now, 'tho some of us don't accept, apparently, that a family can be any combination of sexes, races, ages and what have you. Family is a group that supports and loves you, takes care of you when you need care and has fun with you when fun is possible. The acting in this movie is subtle and honest. Eddie Murphy, like Robin Williams, is a comedian who can also be a disciplined actor given a wonderful director like Bruce Beresford and a good script. Kudus to all the cast and crew. I'm only rating it a 9 because some folks think tear jerkers can't be good movies. I do, but the 9 is a slight warning to those unenlightened ones.

I am not very familiar with most of Mr. Murphy's work, so I don't know a lot about what he's done. However, I do know this ... very few actors can inhabit a character as Mr. Murphy did. There was no Eddy Murphy in this movie; there was only Mr. Church, fully embodied and precisely nuanced and so true-to-life that you expect to find him in the kitchen the next morning ... which, since this is a true story, is entirely fitting. Well done, Mr. Murphy. Well done.