Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Biggs prays to God for help – which arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.
- angel
- church choir
- gospel
- reverend
- crisis of faith
- woman director
- christmas
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Denzel Washington
Dudley
Whitney Houston
Julia Biggs
Courtney B. Vance
Reverend Henry Biggs
Gregory Hines
Joe Hamilton
- Jenifer Lewis — Margueritte Coleman
- Loretta Devine — Beverly
- Paul Bates — Saul Jeffreys
- Justin Pierre Edmund — Jeremiah Biggs
- Lionel Richie — Britsloe
- Victor Williams — Robbie
- Shari Headley — Arlene Chattan
- Marcella Lowery — Anna Eldridge
- Cissy Houston — Mrs. Havergal
- Charlotte d'Amboise — Debbie Paige
- Helmar Augustus Cooper — Johnson Keeley
- Directed
- Penny Marshall
- Written
- Nat Mauldin, Allan Scott
Production
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 · 266 ratings
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures, Mundy Lane Entertainment, Parkway Productions, The Samuel Goldwyn Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
