First Sunday (2008)

Director:

David E. Talbert

Writer (WGA):

David E. Talbert (written by)

Release Date:

11 January 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

Keep the faith. Steal the rest.

Plot:

Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.

Plot Keywords:

Embezzlement | Singing | Police | Friendship | Deacon

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Cast

Ice Cube	...	Durell Washington
Katt Williams	...	Rickey
Tracy Morgan	...	LeeJohn Jackson
Loretta Devine	...	Sister Doris McPherson
Michael Beach	...	Deacon
Keith David	...	Judge B. Bennett Galloway
Regina Hall	...	Omunique
Malinda Williams	...	Tianna Mitchell
Chi McBride	...	Pastor Arthur Mitchell
Clifton Powell	...	Officer Eddie King
Nicholas Turturro	...	Officer D'Agostino
Olivia Cole	...	Momma T
Red Grant	...	Harold
C.J. Sanders	...	Durell Washington Jr.
Rickey Smiley	...	Bernice Jenkins

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, some sexual humor, and brief drug references.

Runtime:

USA:98 min | USA:96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

First Hope Community Church - E. Preston Street & Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Company:

Cube Vision

Trivia:

Film prints were delivered to theaters under the codename "Bad to Worse".

Goofs:

Continuity: The first time that Darnell goes to Omunique's apartment her large hoop earrings that have her name in script inside the loop are in backwards in her right ear. The one in the left is in the correct position and then the one in her right ear goes from wrong way to right way and back.

Quotes:

Mordecai: Do you want to know my name?
LeeJohn: I don't just want to know your name, I want you to whisper it in my ear.
Mordecai: MORDECAI!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Prom Night (2008)

Soundtrack:

Hit The Block

very enjoyable

We saw this movie and the "The Bucket List" the same day and both were billed as comedies. Even though the latter has the more accomplished actors in Freeman and Nicholson as well as the the director in Rob Reiner, we thought that "First Sunday" was much more funnier. I liked both movies and both had tender moments, but I got into the characters more so in"First Sunday", than I did in the List.. Now I must admit that if you are not African-American, you might not get all of it, but everyone in the racially mixed crowd in the theater I saw it at in Southern California "loved" it.!! If you are afraid to be seen viewing it in a movie theater, at least support the cause by renting it when it is available on DVD