Mr. Church Cinema US Release Date

Eddie Murphy plays a man hired to cook for a dying woman and her young daughter in Bruce Beresford's drama.

There’s definitely a place for this type of film and I think its target demographic will love it for hitting all the right notes necessary for a good up-lifting cry.

A small, unflashy, borderline incompetent movie like Mr. Church is certainly another sign that Murphy does what he wants. Maybe this guarded performance in a lousy movie is a si...

Get out your handkerchiefs, but don’t expect to believe a minute of this vastly improbable tale.

Murphy is fine as the title character, although his performance consists mostly of suppressing all of his usual shtick. He certainly doesn’t endow Mr. Church with any unexpected...

From the director of Driving Miss Daisy, Mr Church is equally retrograde in its racial politics, starring Murphy as a noble servant to two white women.

Bruce Beresford's film is remarkable for how it manages to indulge so many offensive and shopworn clichés at once.

This mirthless Eddie Murphy vehicle from the director of 'Driving Miss Daisy' is rife with hoary 'magical negro' stereotypes.