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- 2011
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 2011
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Summary "Jumping the Broom" focuses on a weekend wedding in Martha's Vineyard where two families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds clash during their first meeting before the big event. (Sony Pictures)
Directed By: Salim Akil
Written By: Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene Gibbs
- 2011
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
- 2011
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 1 h 52 m
Jumping the Broom
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4.8
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Summary "Jumping the Broom" focuses on a weekend wedding in Martha's Vineyard where two families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds clash during their first meeting before the big event. (Sony Pictures)
Directed By: Salim Akil
Written By: Elizabeth Hunter, Arlene Gibbs
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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46% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
50% Mixed
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4% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
56
46% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
50% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
You'll laugh - a lot - but you'll also shed tears of recognition at this funny, salty, strife-torn look at the agony and ecstasy of family.
The cast is large, well chosen and diverting. The ceremony is delightful.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 User Ratings
4.8
30% Positive
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7 Ratings
35% Mixed
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35% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 User Ratings
4.8
30% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
35% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
35% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Nice cast. Some very good performances. Technical aspects were really above average. The real plus here is seeing two black families portrayed as "real" families dealing with issues that are universal to all of us. Well done.
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As wedding stories go, it's an improvement over the dreadful "Something Borrowed," though it doesn't have anything terribly new to say.
Despite heavy-handed characterizations, Devine and Bassett make their stake in the union felt, and it's anything but superficial.
Instead of being a wild mixture of tones, it has very little tone at all, and moments of dramatic or comic intensity erupt awkwardly and then fizzle out.
Director Salim Akil deserves credit for keeping the film from falling apart completely. He sets a the brisk pace, and uses the picturesque oceanside setting to give the movie an inviting gloss even as the overstuffed narrative threatens to push viewers away.
Thank goodness for Tasha Smith's character, Shonda. She supplies the only reliable laughs as Pam's fun-loving best friend.
It's a fun movie with a big heart that gets much stronger toward the end. It's not quite as funny as I expected it would be, but Loretta Divine is terrific (as usual) and Mike Epps is solid as the funny uncle who can tell it like it is. The "surprise" family development in this film wasn't nearly as explosive as the surprise in the recent Madea's Big Happy Family, and therefore didn't have quite the same impact. Overall, it's entirely worth seeing.
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nothing new in this story and nothing exceptional either. too bad for Angela Bassett to waste her talent on this tired movie. full of contrived drama that has neither rhyme nor reason to exist within the parameter of the story. it's as if the writer is writing by checking off plot points one after another and making up crisis to bridge them together.
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Production Company
TriStar Pictures,
Stage 6 Films,
Our Stories Films,
Edmonds Entertainment,
Magic Rock Productions,
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA),
TDJ Enterprises / New Dimensions Entertainment
Release Date May 6, 2011
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline The Taylors Are Downtown
Awards
Black Reel Awards
• 7 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
BET Awards
• 3 Nominations
