The defence The Sentimental Softie
“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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I'm in Love with a Church Girl
Drama · Romance · 2013
Miles Montego has it all - cars, boats, good looks, mansion, money, women, but more importantly, he has a past.
Movie details
I'm in Love with a Church Girl
“Sometimes God needs to use Extreme Measures to deal with Extreme Circumstances”
2013 Drama · Romance 1h 58m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
4.2 / 10
2K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
10 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
23 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
5.9 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
Miles Montego has it all - cars, boats, good looks, mansion, money, women, but more importantly, he has a past.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over I'm in Love with a Church Girl?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Cool Ironist
“Feeling things is a little embarrassing.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Steve Race
Written by
Galley Molina
Ja Rule
Miles Montego
Adrienne Bailon-Houghton
Vanessa Leon
Stephen Baldwin
Jason McDaniels
T
T-Bone
Martin De La Fuente
Martin Kove
Terry Edgemond
Michael Madsen
Frank Harris
Vincent Pastore
Nicholas Halston
Court is in session
Put I'm in Love with a Church Girl on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Cool Ironist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.