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| Kingdom Come | |
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| Directed by | Doug McHenry |
| Written by | David Dean Bottrell Jessie Jones |
| Produced by | Edward Bates John Morrissey |
| Starring | LL Cool J Jada Pinkett Smith Vivica A. Fox Loretta Devine Anthony Anderson Whoopi Goldberg Toni Braxton Darius McCrary |
| Cinematography | Francis Kenny |
| Edited by | Richard Halsey |
| Music by | Tyler Bates John E. Rhone |
| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
| Box office | $23.4 million[1] |
Kingdom Come is a 2001 Americancomedy-drama film, written byDavid Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones, and directed byDoug McHenry. This film starsLL Cool J,Jada Pinkett Smith,Vivica A. Fox,Anthony Anderson,Toni Braxton,Whoopi Goldberg,Loretta Devine, andDarius McCrary.
Kingdom Come is a story of a family called the Slocumbs, living out in the country, who must come together after the death of a family member, whom no one seems to remember with much fondness. It is based on theOff-Broadway playDearly Departed.
First, there's Woodrow "Bud" Slocumb, the man in question, whose wife, Raynelle (Whoopi Goldberg), is pretty nonchalant about his death from a stroke. Then, there's Ray Bud (LL Cool J), a recovering alcoholic who has a problem with seeing his father dead because of their rocky relationship; his wife, Lucille (Vivica A. Fox), is a loving, devoted housewife who goes out of her way to make sure that everyone has everything they need, but can't have the one thing she wants out of life: a child. Next, Junior (Anthony Anderson) has blown all of his money on a failed invention, and his loud mouthed wife, Charisse (Jada Pinkett Smith), is no help; she hits the roof after his infidelity and reminds him often that she could have been married to his rich lawyer cousin, who, it is later revealed, left his own wife Juanita (Toni Braxton). Then, there's Marguerite (Loretta Devine), a pious, overbearing mother who usually calls her wayward son, Royce (Darius McCrary), a "Demon Seed"; she fears that he will end up in jail like his brother, and the latter is an unemployed worker who is irritated by his mother's unsolicited and shrill advice on how to live his life.
Filming took place in summer of 2000 in Ferndale, California.