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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195015875
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 6297
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Martin Lawrence leads an all-star cast, including Cedric the Entertainer, Mo'Nique, and Mike Epps, in the hit comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins. When a celebrated TV show host (Lawrence) returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation! It's one outrageous predicament after another when big-city attitude and small-town values collide in this hysterical comedy critics are praising for its "over-the-top hilarity!" (Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel)
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While its story might sound terribly interesting, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is largely a vehicle for gross-out sight gags and grotesque performances by performers who, in many cases, don't need to do such things. Martin Lawrence stars as R.J. Stevens, a successful, Jerry Springer-like, television talk show host who sets aside his perfect life with a sweet son (Damani Roberts) and celebrity girlfriend (Joy Bryant) to attend his parents' golden wedding anniversary back home in Georgia. From the moment he arrives, all the reasons R.J. left to reinvent himself on the West Coast become clear. His siblings and cousins (Mike Epps, Mo'Nique, Michael Clarke Duncan, Cedric the Entertainer) quickly put him in his place, reminding him that his name is actually Roscoe Jenkins. His sweet mother (Margaret Avery) watches impassively while R.J.'s dad (James Earl Jones) strikes one disapproving note after another. R.J. would be content to wait out the anniversary events and go home, but the arrival of a woman (Nicole Ari Parker) he loved but couldn't keep during his adolescence changes everything, bringing out the competitive survivor within. Written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee (Undercover Brother), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins promises rich comedy and dramatic flavorings, as well as a bunch of delightful actors doing what only they can do best. But Lee subverts the project for cheap and easy laughs, using his best material to do little else than bridge scenes of bad slapstick, bestial perversity, clownish sex and irritating, motormouth rants from the likes of Mo'Nique and Epps. This a hard movie to sit through at 114 minutes, one of those what-were-they-thinking-when-they-made-this films. --Tom Keogh
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This is a good ole' gut bustin' black family reunion comedy. Some parts are a little extra in a Sha-nay-nay kind of way but that's Martin Lawrence. I laughed very hard watching this movie and just had to add it to my library.
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This movie is about family, values, decisions, relationships, and old hurts. Roscoe Jenkins has left is small southern town family and made it big in Hollywood complete with fancy cars, mansion, and gorgeous albeite superficial wife. He reluctantly returns home to his parents 50th wedding anniversary celebration where his fame and money mean nothing and where he comically is confronted by old pains and his longtime nemesis, his cousin with whom had be in competition as a child for the affection ... Read More
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Bringing home Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Widescreen) on a whim was one of the best things I've ever done to bring laughter into my house. It's funny all the way through and if you have a family... you should find it funny too!
"Roscoe" has tried to distance himself from his family for years and goes home hoping to show his 'new and imporoved' self to those he thinks should care, and they don't. Frustrated and angry, he ends up trying even harder to show them the new Roscoe and of course, ... Read More
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This was an excellent movie! It is very funny. Some parts were not PG-rated, but as a whole, it is a very good comedy for ADULT audiences.
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"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," one of the better recent efforts from the funny wing of Black Hollywood. (It is certainly better than "First Sunday.") The film is written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee, who directed but did not write the hilarious 2002 film "Undercover Brother." Lee definitely has some jokes in this one--especially involving canine love--but it seems likely that the film's comedic quartet offered some choice jokes to the script and fed off of each other, upping the comedic ante as they went ... Read More
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