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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 21, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Usher Raymond & Chazz Palminteri | |
Performer: | Robert Davi, Emmanuelle Chriqui & Kevin Hart | |
Directed by | Ron Underwood | |
Music by | James Brown | |
Screenwriting by | Jacqueline Zambrano | |
Produced by | Bill Borden | |
Executive Production by | Usher Raymond |
Entertainment Reviews:
With its laughable dramatic sequences and goofy supporting characters, this film is hard to dismiss as entertainment: a camp treat for comics as well as Usher fans.
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Urban Cinefile
[T]he music is well-mixed.
Widescreen Review
Rating: 1.5/4 --
This thing is as formulaically bland as the rest of its Tinseltown kind.
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Globe and Mail
... pic is never too insulting to the viewer, and works up a fair amount of goodwill by the good graces of Usher's Will Smithian charisma and an extremely attractive filmmaking package ...
Variety
Basically all the elements of this film are of a completely zero quality. They do not exist. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
Rating: C --
Usher, who has a squinty charm, is forced to display an infinite polite chivalry that would have shamed Sidney Poitier.
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Entertainment Weekly
It's not exactly atrocious, but it constantly makes you wonder why those involved couldn't find something better to do.
New Times
Product Description:
R&B star Usher makes an assured screen debut in this mix of mob movie and romantic comedy. Chazz Palminenteri co-stars as the friendly don who recruits family friend Darrell (Usher) to play bodyguard for his daughter, Dolly (Emmanuelle Chiriqi). She and Darrell have been friends since they were kids, but the seven years since they last saw each other have changed things. She's grown into a headstrong young law student with a yen for yoga and a smug yuppie boyfriend (Geoff Stults); he's grown into an ultra-smooth chick magnet with dreams of starting his own record company. They're destined for each other, but there's not only the racial issue in their way--someone's trying to take over the family business via treachery and bullets, and Darrell's right in the thick of things. When the interracial romance isn't heating up the screen, there's plenty of raucous comedy supplied by Anthony Fazio as Dolly's pseudo-gangsta younger brother, Kevin Hart as Darrell's loudmouthed co-DJ, and a bulldog with an unfortunate digestion problem. Director Ron Underwood takes his time going around the more edgy turns in the script, giving the actors room to stretch out and get comfortable in their characters and surroundings, and helping the film transcend its more formulaic elements (it's an obvious nod to the 1992 Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner chestnut, THE BODYGUARD). Best of all, Usher proves his game extends to the big screen, where he displays plenty of debonair warmth and easygoing charm.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 51,301
- UPC: 031398191209
- Shipping Weight: 0.16/lbs (approx)
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