Starring: Steve Young, Danny Ainge, Shawn Bradley, Will Swenson, Connie Young Directed By: Kurt Hale Average Rating: Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC Label: Halestorm Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 01, 2002 Running Time: 102 minutes Theatrical Release Date: January 30, 2002
Description: This funny, touching, romantic comedy focuses on the single life of a group of young Latter-day Saints. It shows that being LDS and single can be as funny as it is unique. Audiences will laugh as they are reminded of the defining moments that make up single life for young Mormons. This movie, hilarious at times, will leave you smiling and talking all night long. Anyone who is or ever has been an LDS Single will thoroughly LOVE this movie! There are numerous cameo appearances throughout the movie by Steve Young, Coach La Vell Edwards & Coach Ron McBride, Shawn Bradley, Danny Ainge, Gordon Jump, Wally Joyner, Thurl Bailey, Richard Dutcher, and Utah’s own Ruth Hale. This DVD has many special features that aren't offered on the VHS tape. The DVD has music videos, outtakes, interactive dating games, and other LDS movie trailers.. among other things! You'll be glad you got the DVD.
Singles Ward You don't have to be a Mormon to enjoy Singles Ward. The humor is good. The story is engrossing and it's well made. If you enjoy Singles Ward you'll also like "The R.M." and "Sons Of Provo".
This is a great movie from beginning to end. Although I am no longer a member of the L.D.S. faith, and their doctrine will always seem "off the wall" to me, I found this movie to be very enjoyable. This is a "mainstream" comedy that emphasizes the more normal side of the L.D.S. religion. This is the only L.D.S. based movie that I have enjoyed watching (and the only L.D.S. based movie that is worth watching). The soundtrack of the L.D.S. "primary" songs in the movie are wonderfully sung in a positive, upbeat manner. This is definitely worth your time and money. Enjoy!
Could have been better I know many people who get quite defensive when I tell them of my dislike for the movie, "The Singles Ward." Right away, I hear things like, "It's people like you who give good movies a bad name," or "Oh sure! And I suppose a Hollywood movie, with plenty of swearing and potty humor, would have been better?"
To set the record straight, I love movies that are void of curse words and/or potty humor. In fact, I'll gladly watch a Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant movie anyday over most of the crap movies Hollywodd puts out nowadays. But just because a movie script is clean, doesn't instantly make it high quality, and an example of this is, "The Singles Ward."
The premise sounds interesting enough. A divorced man tries to find his way back into the LDS Church via the singles scene. But this is what dissapointed me the most about, "The Singles Ward" is that it could have been a whole lot better.
Each and every character in this film is so one-dimensional that it was almost painful to watch. The two main characters for example, Jonathan and Cammie, just felt like Utah-LDS stereotypes. And at times, the supporting cast almost seemed like a bunch of robots, just going through the motions of how the outside world views LDS Church members.
Towards the end of this film, there are several moments where the focus turns from comedic to dramatic, but I felt this just made the movie worse. It's almost as if the director was apoligizing for how bad the script was, and had decided to plug in a little tension in order to somehow make the movie better. Sorry, but it just makes the movie sink faster.
The cameos of all the local LDS celebrities is more distracting than anything else. And the music in this movie, hate to say it, but it was embarrassing to listen too.
The only kudos I give this movie is that it did attempt to address a subject matter that hits close to home for many Latter-Day Saints - The dating and courship scene. Maybe the next time someone makes a film on this subject, the characters can be real people with real thoughts and emotions, instead of just cardboard cutouts in a cardboard cutout world.
There are many people, like myself, who demand high quality movies, minus the language, filth and violence, and there are indeed many movies out there like that. Sadly, "The Singles Ward" isn't one of them.
Best Mormon Movie So Far I am a Mormon and I grew up in the church.Even if we don't have any Singles Ward in this country,we can still relate about the agony when it comes to finding an eternal companion.And what's great about this movie is that it pokes fun at our frustrations,without being preachy.There are lots of genuinely funny moments in this movie,including the ones when Jonathan is doing "stand up comedy" (Seven Brides and One Brother!) and when he was caught by his friends talking alone,etc. I dont think we should treat this movie too seriously.Though this movie will inspire us and will remind us about how "cool" it is to be a Mormon,this is mainly a romantic comedy,its not necessary (at least in this movie) to include all the teachings of our church. I think this is the best Mormon Movie so far (haven't seen "The Best Two Years" and "Home Teachers" though)."The RM" is really great too I highly recommend it.I didnt like "Charly" and "The Other Side of Heaven" that much.
Had Good Parts This movie was better than "The Home Teachers" but not nearly as good as "The RM". Good sterotypes and some funny scenes, but I saw "The RM" first and expected the same enjoyment out of this movie and it was lacking. See if your library has it. I wouldn't spend much money buying a copy.
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