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WOMAN THOU ART LOOSED

Based on the book from the evangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes, Michael Schultz’s film tells the story of Michelle Jordan (Kimberly Elise), a fictionalized composite of several women who have come across Jakes’s path. She’s on death row for murdering her stepfather, who molested her as a child, and Jakes, playing himself, appears as her spiritual adviser to help her heal before her execution. Schultz uses extensive flashbacks to show us Michelle in the days leading up to the murder, but instead of a character study, the film offers up stereotypes and hackneyed plotting. No one in the cast, which includes Loretta Devine as Michelle’s mother, manages to escape those stereotypes. And though all the characters who hear Jakes’s sermons are motivated to redeem themselves, audiences might well wonder what all the fuss is about. (94 minutes)

BY BROOKE HOLGERSON

Issue Date: October 22 - 28, 2004
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