Kingdom Come Page #3

Synopsis: This family has issues! When mean and surly Bud Slocumb keels over at breakfast, his family gathers for the wake and funeral: long-suffering widow Raynelle, unemployed son Junior who's cheating on his wife Charisse, son Ray Bud who holds a job and has a loving wife, Lucille, but struggles with alcoholism and with their difficulty having children. There's younger daughter Delightful, who constantly eats; religious Aunt Marguerite and her wayward son Royce; and, there's Juanita, their wealthy cousin's wife. They all descend on the town of Lula, struggle to say something nice about Bud, and face the challenge of sorting out their relationships with the living.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Director(s): Doug McHenry
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
PG
Year:
2001
94 min
$22,574,258
Website
1,462 Views


but it ain't mine.

- Junior!

- What?

Whose is it?

- Baby, I don't know.

- You don't know?

You want me to help you remember?

Is that it?

- Ray Bud?

- Yeah?

It's all just a mystery, huh?

Life and death.

Yes, it is, Clyde. Yes, it is.

Ain't easy losing your daddy.

Taught you how to bait a hook.

Teach you right from wrong,

bought you your first beer.

We remember the good things.

Yep. I ought to get back

to this carburetor.

We're not just a garage, Ray.

We're your family.

Back when you was a drunken bum,

we stood by you.

Paid your bills, lied to your wife.

Family things.

And I sure am grateful for that,

Clyde.

Of course, I wouldn't let

Antoine and Merline Depew...

...bury my dog, much less my daddy.

So if you have any problems,

just give us a call.

- Thank you, Clyde, I gotta get back.

- Now if...

...you just say the word...

...the Depews will pay more in hearse

repair than they make in a year.

Thank you, Clyde.

I'll keep that in mind.

Ray Bud?

It's your cousin Royce.

This is Ray.

Where are you?

What did he say?

He'll get here when he can.

Do you do this to torture me?

Yeah, Mama. I siphoned out the gas

so we'd have time together.

You're a demon.

The devil incarnate.

IKeep your drawers on, okay?

Ray Bud is on his way...

...and he can't get here

fast enough for me.

So let's just sit here

and be quiet for a while.

Jesus got the knob!

That's cool...

...that's cool.

- 'Cause Satan got the key!

- Give me that!

I cannot believe I spent 17 hours...

...in labor with you!

You get back here! Royce!

You get back here, boy,

before I hurt you!

We combine a thrifty,

no-nonsense approach...

...with a Christ-like sensitivity...

...to answer all your funeral needs.

We have a number of wonderful plans.

Let me tell you about them.

The Eternal Life plan...

Seventeen hours...

...of unbelievable torment.

Crying out in unbearable agony!

Would it kill you to do one thing

to please me?

- It looks that way.

- Since you got fired...

...from that sewage plant,

you've been with a bad crowd.

You'll be like your brother.

Leave Lavar out of this.

Maybe you'll end up neighbors in jail.

The two of you can beat on

the bars with your tin cups.

- I ain't got time for this...

- You wait up, boy!

There's a gas station

down this road.

I'm gonna get some gas.

Go on, get your gas.

Maybe if I'm lucky...

...I'll get killed by some big semi!

So go on, get your gas.

All right, Mama.

What do you want to talk about?

Where is your life going?

Them unemployment checks...

...don't come forever.

Have you thought about that?

Life isn't just drinking

and loose women.

- Life is not a good time.

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David Dean Bottrell

David Dean Bottrell is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter best known for playing the creepy and homicidal Lincoln Meyer on 8 episodes of the ABC television series Boston Legal. Known for his quirky characterizations, he started his career in New York, working at such theatres as the Second Stage, the Public Theater, the Manhattan Punch Line and regionally at the Long Wharf Theatre and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His television work includes guest starring roles on And the Band Played On, Head of the Class, JAG, Caroline in the City, Mad About You, Dharma & Greg, Days of Our Lives, Ugly Betty, Criminal Minds, iCarly, Castle, Bones, Harry's Law, NCIS, Justified, Mad Men, Longmire, Modern Family, Law & Order: SVU, Rectify and The Blacklist. He also co-wrote (with Jessie Jones) the off-Broadway play Dearly Departed, which he and Jones later adapted into a film version titled Kingdom Come, starring Whoopi Goldberg, LL Cool J and Jada Pinkett Smith, produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures.Bottrell has written about his experiences in the entertainment industry for the Huffington Post, Backstage, Salon.com and MetroSource magazine. His short film, Available Men premiered in the 2006 HBO Comedy Festival and went on to win 17 awards on the film festival circuit. On stage, he was one of the original cast members of both the Los Angeles and New York companies of the long-running comedy revue, Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues performed by an All-Male Company in which he performed his critically acclaimed 6-minute rendition of the entire plot of Out of Africa.In the summer of 2011, Bottrell (who is openly gay) performed his comedic one-man show, David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show to sold out houses at the Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2012, his second one-man show, David Dean Bottrell is Working played a five-week sold out run at the Acme Theatre in Hollywood. Bottrell has taught acting at UCLA and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (both the New York and Los Angeles campuses). He is also one of the producers of Sci-Fest, the first annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, held annually in May. more…

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