The Fighting Temptations

The Fighting Temptations is a 2003 American musical comedydrama film directed by Jonathan Lynn, written by Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K. Patterson, and distributed by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films. 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, Lilly Beyonc Knowles, with whom he falls in love. Through the choirs music, Darrin brings the church community back together all the while pursuing a romantic relationship with Lilly.

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 a singing secular music when she also sings in a church choir. Aunt Sally Ann Nesby attempts to defend MaryAnn, but it fails. The churchs cowardly pastor, Reverend Lewis Wendell Pierce, is too afraid of the other church members to let her stay. MaryAnn and Darrin are last seen saying goodbye to Aunt Sally, as they sadly wave goodbye with each other. In 2003, Darrin has grown up to become a successful advertising executive in New York City with a bad habit of lying. Darrins only true friend and secretary, Rosa Lopez Lourdes Benedicto, does a good job at keeping his credit problems under control. However, Darrin has achieved so much under false pretenses and faked his college degree and high school diploma. 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. After being tracked down by a private investigator, Darrin soon finds out that Aunt Sally has died.Darrin 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. When Darrin arrives, he finds a new friendship in Lucious Mike Epps, the towns happygolucky cab driver. Lucious is obsessed with womens booties and even proclaims himself a Booty expert and Bootyologist. At Aunt Sallys funeral, Shirley Caesar makes a cameo appearance as a character who was an old friend of Sally and sings at the funeral. After the funeral, Darrin soon learns from the Reverend that Aunt Sally had stated in her will that he must return home to direct the church choir and enter the annual Gospel Explosion competition and win the prize money of 10,000 and Aunt Sallys stock in the company that produces the show which is currently worth 150,000. Paulina is furious with t

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