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The Preacher's Wife (1996)

Film · 1996 · 123 min · PG · Family · Fantasy · Drama

They needed help. What they got was a miracle.

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.

Directed by Penny Marshall

Starring Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance, Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine, Paul Bates, Justin Pierre Edmund

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In cinemas13 December 1996
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First release anywhere13 December 1996

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