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  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary Talk-show sensation RJ Stevens left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his "Team of Me" philosophy to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-TV-star fiancée and money to burn, there's no piece of the Hollywood dream RJ hasn't achieved. After his parents request that he co...

Directed By: Malcolm D. Lee

Written By: Malcolm D. Lee

  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 44 m

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
46
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Summary Talk-show sensation RJ Stevens left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his "Team of Me" philosophy to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-TV-star fiancée and money to burn, there's no piece of the Hollywood dream RJ hasn't achieved. After his parents request that he co...

Directed By: Malcolm D. Lee

Written By: Malcolm D. Lee

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Metascore
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Mixed or Average Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Turns out to be formulaic and broad but also skillfully paced and big-hearted, with a sharp cast of comics that makes the most of a sunny script.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
63
Under normal circumstances, too many comics spoil the show.
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50
Imagine a Three Stooges short with a feel-good ending, and you get the idea.
By Chris Kaltenbach FULL REVIEW
50
As Roscoe's parents, Margaret Avery and James Earl Jones emerge with drawers undropped and dignity intact.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
50
It's not the unevenness of the comedy that kills Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins but the illegitimacy of the drama.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
38
This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
25
It's not that you can't go home again. It's that you SHOULDN'T, at least not in a lowbrow Hollywood comedy, because your family will inevitably be lewd, crude, loud and obnoxious.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW

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31% Negative
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Production Company Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Stuber/Parent, IFP MSB
Release Date Feb 8, 2008
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Going home is no vacation.
Website http://www.paramountpictures.fr/sites/roscoejenkins/
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