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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Editorial Review:
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
The Preacher's Wife [Region 2] Reviews:
Fantastic 
2009-11-26 - This is a must have movie. This movie should not only be shown at Christmas but year round. Whitney Houston is very believable as a Preacher's wife.
Movie Collector
2009-07-12 - If yuo are looking for a great movie, this is it.....If you love Denzel, this is it! and if you are a Whitney Houston fan than this is a must see
Another Christmas Tradition
2009-01-20 - This movie, though simplistic in plot and very predictable in outcome, exemplifies the spirit of Christmas. The actors give sound performances and Whitney Houston is electrifying in her acting and singing. This movie was obviously done before her tragic downfall. Denzel, as always gives a good performance as the angel sent from heaven to save a marriage and a church form destruction. The supporting actors give strong performances that make this a very tight film. I would place this movie on the annual family "must watch" list at Christmastime, along with A WONDERFUL LIFE, THE ORIGINAL 1932 CHRISTMAS CAROL, AND THE CHRISTMAS STORY.
Whitney is the best
2009-01-18 - This is the best movie Whitney as played in and Denzel did a wonderful job ad well everyone did in my opinion 100% recommended
bad copy of dvd that was supposed to be new 
2009-01-13 - Was very excited to watch dvd, a great family Christmas movie. But at the best part of the movie, the dvd went crazy. Very disappointed considering I chose to buy it from Amazon rather than at a retailer. I could not even send it back because I opened it. Will not buy dvd's from Amazon again.
Paul
