A Beautiful Soul

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**PLOT SPOILERS**

Dre (Deitrick Haddon) is an entertainer who looks and sounds like a low budget "Prince." In this film he is also a player and goes to church on a lost bet to his childhood friend Chris Scott (Robert Ri'chard) who is part of his entourage. While at church he tries to pick up Ariel (Lanisha Cole) and ends up disgusted as this mega-church only reinforces the negative stereotypes.

Once some of the characters are established, Dre gets robbed by his own security people and shot. During this time he has an out of body "Christmas Carol" type of experience which leads us to the expected ending.

African-American spirituals are not on my favorite film list. If they are on yours, you might rate this one 4-5 stars. The acting was forced and didn't seem natural, perhaps because of the water downed dialouge. The music was good, what little there was, with Dre lip syncing. He could kiss a member of the audience and not miss a note. There is also the...

A nice way to spend the afternoon.
I saw this movie in the theater thinking it would be just like his other movie Blessed and Cursed, but he took things in a different direction. I think this one was a little better than the aforementioned, whereas the former seemed more like a very long music video that was intended to promote his next CD, this seemed more like a real movie with only one or two VERY LONG music scenes. Although it did have a small amount of profanity and showed a lot of skin in one of the performance scenes, it didn't feel nearly as compromising as watching a typical Tyler Perry movie. I gave this movie 4 stars instead of 5 because if you've seen "A Christmas Carol", you've seen this movie. Although the story line is kind of predictable, I'd still say watching this movie is a nice way for Deitrick Haddon and gospel music fans in general to spend the afternoon.

a beautiful soul
I am a hugh Deitrick Haddon fan. I listen to his music almost non-stop. I ordered this DVD and checked my mailbox everyday in anticipation. It did not take Amazon long to deliver it. This movie sucked. It had a predictable plot- rock star almost dies. Then he goes through the same senario of seeing his life as it could be. He sees the errors of his ways, wake up and is a changed man to live happily ever after with the girl of his dreams. At times it was so hard to understand the parts that people were saying due to poor pronounciation. If I could I would get my money back

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