Running Time
118
min
MPAA rating
PG-13
(for some language including a sexual reference)
Release Date
Jan 13, 2012
Joyful Noise
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow thinks tried-and-true translates… Show more
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Hot gospel singing and earnest family squabbles are all that distinguish “Joyful Noise,’’ a pew-pounding musical drama starring Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, and the skeletal remains of Dolly Parton. Todd Graff’s film has been made possible by the success of “Glee’’ on television, and the up-tempo pop revisionism of that show gets a churchy makeover here. Paul McCartney’s 1970 hit “Maybe I’m Amazed’’ as a paean to the Lord? Only if the singer can sell it like she believes it. Which she does, thank God.
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