The Fighting Temptations

Also starring (as they appear in the photo) Beyonce Knowles as Lilly, Mike Epps as Lucius,  Melba Moore as Bessie...Paramount PIC/MTV.

 

Starring Oscar winner, Cuba Gooding jr., as a wall st. whiz wanna-be from a teenie weenie southern backwoods town called Montecarlo Georgia. 

 

His mother was a single parent who brought him to  New York City as child and pretty much left him to raise himself as she tried to become a professional singer. He's not doing well at all on Wall St.

He gets a telegram telling him that his aunt has passed away and willed him the church by, the church choir, and some stocks, if he will enter  the choir  nto the Gospel explosion contest and win!

 

A long the way he meets the beautiful songbird "Lilly", played  by the beautiful songbird from Destiny's child, Beyonce "Knowles, Lou Meyers, Wendell Pierce, Latanya Richardson, Montell Jordan, Lil Kane, Mike Epps, Angie Stone, Rue McClanahan, Melba Moore, Mickey Jones, The O'jays, Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, Mary Mary, The Five Blind Boys, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Ann Nesby, Faith Evans, Steve Harvey, Las Shun& June Pace,.... Just to name a few.. in a hilarious, PG rated  (clean) gospel musical comedy with an incredible gospel and R&B sound track by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and directed By Jonathan Lynn; a comic genius director; as is exemplified in his  brilliant direction of "my cousin Vinnie".