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Monday, August 12, 2019

Mr. Church (2016)

This is a very odd story that is told only from one side, so in the end, while I enjoyed the telling, I just didn't get what I was supposed to think about it.
Mr. Church (played by a very quiet Eddy Murphy, without any sense of humor what so ever) has been a cook for a man we never meet named Richard.  He shows up in Marie's kitchen one day, telling her that Richard, who has now died, has sent him to cook for Marie and her daughter until Marie dies, which is going to happen sooner rather than later, because Marie has breast cancer.
So where the money comes from and how it flows through Mr. Church is a piece of the mystery that we never find out.  Marie dies just as her daughter Charlotte is off to college, but that soon comes up wonky and she is back on Mr. Church's doorstep.  Charlotte has no family and Mr. Church was a victim of verbal and physical abuse as a child and they are damaged in their own ways, limited in what they can do by the trauma of their past.  It is interesting, if not altogether satisfying.

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