David E. Talbert Presents: A Fool and His Money (2012 Video) User Reviews

A disappointment.

[onpointmag · 3/10 · 4 May 2020]

The story moved extremely slow. The jokes were mediocre, and the storyline was just so-so 🙄 Even so, I will continue to support black playwright, artist & businesses.

Very heartwarming play

[lovecouture-88370 · 10/10 · 24 September 2020]

This was a play just to start with not a movie. it had comedy, edgy drama, heart warming moments and overall a great message about family. It was everything I wasn't expecting from a play!

I thought this was awesome.

[samxrm · 10/10 · 4 September 2013]

It's a play done on a stage and they filmed it for our enjoyment. And they did it rather well. Camera-work, lighting, etc was great, I thought the sound could have been better. (Although, I will admit to never having seen a play in person, thus, I lack the experience of hearing one.)

The acting is top notch from top to bottom. Maybe a little slow in what I perceived to be early in the third act. But an outstanding production, nonetheless. The musical interludes were fantastic. Not a lot of songs, but all are well written and performed, especially the first one.

It's a rags to riches to rags to riches story. We can all see it coming a mile away. But this isn't the same old way it is usually presented.

If you got about an hour forty to waste and want to watch a REALLY good movie, put this one on your list.

Nothing to see here

[MembersOnlyClub · 9/10 · 9 December 2014]

I never saw the previews so didn't know what to expect, the name and cover just caught my eye and so I figured I'd give the movie a chance. The movie in a glimpse is centered around a lower class family struggling to make ends meet. The overly religious grandmother holds her faith in the lord and crams it down the throat of the audience, her family and their friends. I felt a bit bombarded with religion to early on in the movie and it did not cease there. It unnerved me for the most part that this family who came from nothing once, winning the million dollar phrase that pays lottery, goes and purchases the utmost useless trinkets that money can buy. Why didn't they go buy a house or even pay the dern gas bill. They only struted amongst one another in newly purchased wardrobes and talked in tones that mocked that of someone off of the Prince of Bel-Air. And there's the daughter with her teenaged love affairs and woes with an egotistical a*hole and an old high school flame who reappears in her life. She doesn't have the common sense of a two year old. The only one who I may give a bit of credit to may be the son who's actions at least made quite a bit of sense. Yet even he lost me for not being honest and letting on that his sister's boyfriend had become out of control. The mother played no true part as her request and demands made to the children where always futile and her husband seemed oblivious as to the fact that he even had responsibility for a daughter. He seemed to be more on jr's case when that was neither of any effect. The uncle in the end taught the whole family a true lesson even when his presence was unwanted by the adults. I could not take this play seriously enough to become emotionally affected by what happened to the characters. I was constantly harping at the TV screen for the dumb actions of the characters and by the end was glad that it was all over. Nothing to see here folks. Unless you are a fan of theatrical singing.