Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for. The all-star cast also includes Katt Williams as Rickey, the flamboyant church choir-director, Chi McBride as the Pastor, Malinda Williams as his outspoken daughter and Regina Hall as the mother of Durell's son.****** It’s a steamy summer day... in inner-city Baltimore when Durell Washington learns that his son’s mother plans to take Durell Jr. to Atlanta to live—unless Durell can come up with $17,000 to help her keep her hair salon afloat. A dedicated if chronically underemployed dad, Durell has spent years trying to give his son a better chance at life than he had. He has walked the boy to the school bus each morning, tried to turn his gift for tinkering into a job and resisted the harebrained criminal schemes of his lifelong friend LeeJohn Jackson . But after another frustrating day of job hunting, Durell’s desperation overcomes his common sense and he agrees to help LeeJohn deliver a truckload of stolen wheelchairs for a local thug. The job ends in chaos when LeeJohn panics and leads the police on a wild car chase through the city. Sentenced to 5,000 hours of community service by an irate judge , Durell is deeper in debt than ever when their erstwhile employer demands $12,000 for the lost wheelchairs—or else. Almost $30,000 in the red, the pair seems to be out of options until LeeJohn convinces his pal to go along with another one of his goofball capers: This time, all they have to do is rob their local neighborhood church. The would-be bandits break in intending to crack the safe and get out fast. Instead, they stumble onto a church meeting in progress and discover the First Sunday collection money is already missing. Seeing no way back, Durell finds himself holding a room full of indignant church folk hostage. As the night wears on and the temperature in the sanctuary rises, long simmering feuds among the church leaders begin to boil over. Pastor Mitchell does his best to referee a heated dispute between his beautiful and fiery daughter Tianna and smooth talking Deacon Randy over the best use for the money. Sweet church secretary Sister Doris reaches out to LeeJohn and makes him understand the error of his ways. All the while, flamboyant choir director Rickey tries to ignore the ruckus and proceed with his choir practice. Before the evening is over, the money will turn up, the thief will be revealed and Durell and LeeJohn will come away with something more important than money.
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| Release date: | January 11, 2008 |
| Directed by: | David E. Talbert |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 98 Minutes |
| Producer: | Matt Alvarez, Tim Story, David McIlvain, Ice Cube, David E. Talbert |
| Editor: | Jeffrey Wolf |
| Music by: | Stanley Clarke |
| Cinematography: | Alan Caso |
| Screenplay by: | David E. Talbert |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |