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The Preacher's Wife

They needed help. What they got was a miracle.

1996 · PG · 2h 3m

Directed by Penny Marshall

5.8

TMDB audience score
268 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Denzel Washington
    Dudley

  • Whitney Houston
    Julia Biggs

  • Courtney B. Vance
    Reverend Henry Biggs

  • Gregory Hines
    Joe Hamilton

  • Jenifer Lewis
    Margueritte Coleman

  • Loretta Devine
    Beverly

  • Paul Bates
    Saul Jeffreys

  • Justin Pierre Edmund
    Jeremiah Biggs

  • Lionel Richie
    Britsloe

  • Victor Williams
    Robbie

  • Shari Headley
    Arlene Chattan

  • Marcella Lowery
    Anna Eldridge

  • Cissy Houston
    Mrs. Havergal

  • Charlotte d'Amboise
    Debbie Paige

  • Helmar Augustus Cooper
    Johnson Keeley

  • Jernard Burks
    Pizza Man

  • Aaron A. McConnaughey
    Teen

  • Lex Monson
    Osbert