Even right down to the title this religious comedy debuting appropriately today on a Sunday in the Premieres section of the Sundance Film Festival can’t seem to decide what it wants to be. I…
plays Pastor Lee-Curtis Childs, the man who gets caught up in that scandal and is trying to weasel his way out of it, even as the pair face stiff competition from another couple, the Sumpters who aim to reap the rewards of the Childs’ downfall and build their own church at an opportune time.
From the beginning Hall and Brown gamely try to manage the comical elements with mixed results. Whether dropping in a scene as the couple lyp synch wildly to a rap song that is anything the ideal of music heard in their church, or a running gag where they step in sticky substances in front of their empty church, much of the comedy seems shoehorned in, as does a superfluous sex scene thrown into the mix.
Ebo does serve up large dramatic opportunities later on when Trinitie starts questioning everything, going personally into deeper darker places as she renounces the whole enterprise and her own relationship with her husband as the onscreen graphics keep signaling the reopening timeline of their church.
hit screens, and perhaps because it was based on a well known couple and their travails it seemed more successful in reminding us of the absurdity of this kind of religious con job, huge profits in the name of Jesus. Taking it to the Black community and showing the problem seemingly exists everywhere in the faith based spherebut being a fictional take I just wish it stayed wholly in the satirical lane it intended to travel. It is a rich area to explore in comedy.
In addition to the Ebo sisters, as well as Brown and Hall, producers are Daniel Kaluuya, Rowan Riley, Amanda Crichlow, Kara Durrett, and Jesse Burgum.
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