“Our Family Wedding’’ is another Hollywood fast-food sandwich. But instead of two squirts of ketchup someone actually took the time to lay some fresh tomato on that greasy bun. The movie tricks out the “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’’ formula for a hyperrracial, upper-middle class 21st-century Los Angeles
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A man learns too well that one shouldn’t promise more than they can actually deliver in this independent thriller. Charlie (Joseph McKelheer) lives in Alaska with his wife Rebecca (Jessica Ward) and young son James (Ben Loosli). Charlie makes a modest living as a preacher and faith healer, but he’s come to question his faith, and tries to dull the pain of doubt with alcohol and affairs with other women.
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A man learns too well that one shouldn’t promise more than they can actually deliver in this independent thriller. Charlie (Joseph McKelheer) lives in Alaska with his wife Rebecca (Jessica Ward) and young son James (Ben Loosli).
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THE COURAGE TO LOVE profiles the extraordinary life of Henriette Delille, the first African-American saint. Set in New Orleans in the early 1800s, the film recounts an era when mixed races had open courtship, but were forbidden to marry
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One enters a movie like “Our Family Wedding” bracing for cheesiness. As a genre, wedding films are typically about as cloying as two-hours worth of kitten videos on YouTube. Add in the equally checkered history of stridently ethnic movies, and you might want to start asking moviegoers to remove their belts before entering the theater
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Review: `Our Family Wedding’ surpasses stereotype