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      The Gospel

      2005, Drama, 1h 43m

      37 Reviews 10,000+ Ratings

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      While it features outstanding musical numbers, The Gospel reduces a series of worthy themes -- faith, family, forgiveness -- to soapy, banal clichés. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      While he was once on the way to becoming a minister, David Taylor (Boris Kodjoe) instead chose to become a popular music star, and the hedonism that followed turned his father against him. But despite the gulf between them, David comes home when he finds out that his father is sick. At the church David once stood to inherit, he finds that the Rev. Charles (Idris Elba), who has been groomed to shepherd the congregation after his father's retirement, has ideas that could ruin everything.

      • Rating: PG (Thematic Elements|Suggestive Material)

      • Genre: Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Rob Hardy

      • Producer: Will Packer

      • Writer: Rob Hardy

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $15.8M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment

      • Production Co: Rainforest Productions

      • Sound Mix: Surround

      Cast & Crew

      Boris Kodjoe

      Boris Kodjoe

      David Taylor

      Idris Elba

      Idris Elba

      Reverend Charles Frank

      Clifton Powell

      Clifton Powell

      Bishop Fred Taylor

      Aloma Wright

      Aloma Wright

      Ernestine

      Donnie McClurkin

      Donnie McClurkin

      Minister Hunter

      Omar Gooding

      Omar Gooding

      Wesley

      Tamyra Gray

      Tamyra Gray

      Rain Walker

      Keshia Knight Pulliam

      Keshia Knight Pulliam

      Maya Walker

      Nona Gaye

      Nona Gaye

      Charlene Frank

      Michael J. Pagan

      Michael J. Pagan

      Young David

      Sean Nelson

      Sean Nelson

      Young Frank

      Dwayne Boyd

      Dwayne Boyd

      Oscar

      Delores Winans

      Delores Winans

      Janet Perkins

      Rob Hardy

      Rob Hardy

      Director

      Rob Hardy

      Rob Hardy

      Writer

      Diane Ashford

      Diane Ashford

      Line Producer

      Bernard Bronner

      Bernard Bronner

      Associate Producer

      Holly Davis Carter

      Holly Davis Carter

      Co-Executive Producer

      Fred Hammond

      Fred Hammond

      Co-Executive Producer

      Will Packer

      Will Packer

      Producer

      Kirk Franklin

      Kirk Franklin

      Original Music

      Stanley A. Smith

      Stanley A. Smith

      Original Music

      Matthew MacCarthy

      Matthew MacCarthy

      Cinematographer

      Fernando Villena

      Fernando Villena

      Film Editing

      Robi Reed

      Robi Reed

      Casting

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      Critic Reviews for The Gospel

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      Audience Reviews for The Gospel

      • Dec 26, 2008

        A good all around movie, About a Rap singer coming home to help his fathers church, meets a beautiful girl and changes his ways, for the girl or for the lord????? you decided. Put it in the collection
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