Comment on Mr Church review – Eddie Murphy's saintly cook leaves nasty aftertaste

Mr Church review – Eddie Murphy's saintly cook leaves nasty aftertaste

From the director of Driving Miss Daisy, Mr Church is equally retrograde in its racial politics, starring Murphy as a noble servant to two white womenWith its sentimental depiction of the relationship between a wealthy white woman and a nobly subservient black man, if there’s one film that hasn’t aged well, it’s Driving Miss Daisy – and indeed there were plenty of people who excoriated its racial politics on its release in 1989, Public Enemy giving it a memorable shout-out on the self-explanatory Burn Hollywood Burn.

 

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