The next afternoon at a church barbecue, Paulina deliberately reveals Darrin's secrets with a polite demeanor, in order to make herself look innocent. However, Paulina takes a message for Darrin in a phone call from Rosa and learns of his past troubles, and intends on exposing him the first chance she gets. After weeks of success, the choir has become more popular, more people have joined the church and the choir. Johnson ( T-Bone, Chris Cole, and Montell Jordan). The three convicts are Bee-Z Briggs, Lightfoot, and Mr. Washington also lets Darrin use three convicts who can sing well. Thanks to Lilly's beautiful looks and voice, the choir performs well and Washington lets them into the competition. Luckily, the audition judge, Luther Washington ( Faizon Love), who is also the town's prison warden, lets them perform in a show for his prisoners when the booked act fails to arrive. Later, Paulina reveals that Darrin forgot to enter the choir into the auditions. After the funeral, Darrin soon learns from the Reverend that Aunt Sally had stated in her will that he must direct the church choir and enter the annual "Gospel Explosion" competition and win the prize money of $10,000 and Aunt Sally's stock in the company that produces the show which is currently worth $150,000. At Aunt Sally's funeral, Shirley Caesar makes a cameo appearance as a character who was an old friend of Sally and sings at the funeral. Lucious is obsessed with women's booties and even proclaims himself a "Booty expert" and "Bootyologist". When Darrin arrives, he finds a new friendship in Lucious ( Mike Epps), the town's happy-go-lucky cab driver. After being tracked down by a private investigator, Darrin soon finds out that Aunt Sally has died.ĭarrin returns to his hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia and looks back on both comical and heartbreaking memories of MaryAnn and the experiences they had together. Darrin also lied about being the son of a congressman, and his lies soon catch up with him and get him in trouble with his paranoid boss ( Dakin Matthews) and Darrin loses his job. However, Darrin has achieved so much under false pretenses and faked his college degree and high school diploma. Darrin's only true friend and secretary, Rosa Lopez ( Lourdes Benedicto), does a good job at keeping his credit problems under control. In 2003, Darrin has grown up to become a successful advertising executive in New York City with a bad habit of lying. MaryAnn and Darrin are last seen saying goodbye to Aunt Sally, as they sadly wave goodbye with each other. The church's cowardly pastor, Reverend Lewis ( Wendell Pierce), is too afraid of the other church members to let her stay. Aunt Sally ( Ann Nesby) attempts to defend MaryAnn, but it fails. In 1980, a young boy named Darrin Hill ( Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his mother, MaryAnn ( Faith Evans), are run out of town after MaryAnn was soon discovered to be singing secular music when she also sings in a church choir. The film received mixed reviews upon release. The film is notable for its soundtrack and ensemble cast. Through the choir's music, Darrin brings the church community back together all the while seeking a relationship with Lilly. The main plot revolves around Darrin Hill ( Cuba Gooding Jr.) who travels to his hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia as he attempts to revive a church choir in order to enter a gospel competition with the help of a beautiful lounge singer and childhood friend, Lilly ( Beyoncé Knowles), with whom he falls in love. Patterson, and distributed by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films. The Fighting Temptations is a 2003 American musical comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, written by Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K.
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