| Product Summary | | Label: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT | | UPC: 00043396133457 | | Release Date: 1/3/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202100344 | | Item#: M2RM5E |
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| | A young singer turns his back on God and his father's church when tragedy strikes. He returns years later to find the once powerful congregation in disarray. With his childhood nemesis creating a "new vision" for the church, he is forced to deal with family turmoil, career suicide, and relationship issues that send him on a collision course with redemption or destruction. Set in the world of the African-American church and gospel music from director Rob Hardy (Trois, Trois 2: Pandora's Box), The Gospel features an all-star cast including Boris Kodjoe (Love and Basketball), Omar Gooding (Baby Boy), Nona Gaye (The Matrix Reloaded), Clifton Powell (Ray), Tamyra Gray (TV's American Idol star), Keshia Knight Pulliam (TV's The Cosby Show) and the hottest names in gospel with Grammy Award winners Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, and Hezekiah Walker among many more!  What is UMDTM?
UMD, Universal Media Disc, is a brand-new and groundbreaking optical storage medium, designed for the high speed and efficient delivery of digital entertainment content that can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60mm disc -- or an entire feature film on a single UMD video. All UMD DVDs are produced in Widescreen and encoded using advanced AVC compression. UMD for PSP will play on the new PlayStation Portable handheld entertainment system.
Specifications
Diameter: 60 mmMaximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"The Gospel is a foot-stomping, hand-clapping good time..." Jawn Murray, AOL's Black Voices
| | Album Notes and Credits |  | Boris Kodjoe - Actor | | Clifton Powell - Actor | | Fernando Villena - Editor | | Frank Galline - Production Designer | | Fred Hammond, et. al. - Executive Producer | | Matthew MacCarthy - Cinematographer | | Omar Gooding - Actor | | Rob Hardy - Director | | Rob Hardy - Writer | | Stanley A. Smith, et. al. - Original Music By | | William Packer - Producer | | Yolanda Adams - Actor | | |
| | Professional Reviews | | Variety.com 6 of 10
An ego-maniacal Baptist reverend and a sexy pop star who has drifted from his Christian roots stumble toward redemptions of a sort in The Gospel, a creaky melodrama that wants to be a musical. Mimicking a traditional movie tuner, director Rob Hardy's script allows for plenty of gospel music to bridge the gaps in his slight drama centered around a struggling Atlanta church. - Robert Koehler
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
The Gospel is the first mainstream movie I can remember that deals knowledgeably with the role of the church in African-American communities. It is not a particularly religious movie; the characters are believers, but the movie is not so much about faith and prayer as about the economic and social function of a church: How it operates as a stabilizing force, a stage for personalities, an arena for power struggles, and an enterprise which must cover its costs or go out of business...If the plot wanders through several predictable situations, and it does, the movie never lingers too long on those developments before cutting back to the best gospel music I've seen on film since Say Amen, Somebody. Like an Astaire and Rogers musical, this is a movie you don't go to for the dialogue. - Roger Ebert
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