Kingdom Come

Reviews From All Movie Guide Based on the play Dearly Departed by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones (who also penned this screenplay). this new comedy from the director of Jasons Lyric looks at a family gathering after one of their clan dies of a stroke. In the midst of a sweltering summer. the Slocumb family convenes. They include Charisse (Jada Pinkett Smith). the long-suffering. frustrated wife of philandering Junior (Anthony Anderson); theres also the Bible-spouting Marguerite (Loretta Devine). who prays to save her hard-living son Royce (Darius McCrary) from a life on welfare. Lucille (Vivica A. Fox) is the devoted family peacekeeper who is struggling with a money-grubbing funeral director. and her husband Ray Bud (L.L. Cool J) has major contempt for his family and wishes he were burying them instead. Kingdom Come also features Cedric the Entertainer as an intestinally challenged reverend and Whoopi Goldberg as the family matriarch. Jason Clark From The Village Voice Kingdom Come. a seriocomic smorgasbord of African American star spotting (look. Toni Braxton!)...is a shotgun marriage of gross-outs and family clashes.... As the weirdest relative. Jada Pinkett Smith nails a certain down-home type as a cuckolded wife. morphing from...harpy to an elegantly nauseated Cruella De Vil.