The Fighting Temptations is a 2003 romantic comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films. It stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. and singer Beyoncé Knowles as they attempt to revive a town's choir traditions in a modern society and along the way they fall in love with each other.
Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is a successful advertising executive from New York with a bad habit of lying. His best friend and secretary Rosa Lopez (Lourdes Benedict...
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The Fighting Temptations is a 2003 romantic comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures and MTV Films. It stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. and singer Beyoncé Knowles as they attempt to revive a town's choir traditions in a modern society and along the way they fall in love with each other.
Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is a successful advertising executive from New York with a bad habit of lying. His best friend and secretary Rosa Lopez (Lourdes Benedicto) does a good job at keeping his credit problems under control but his lies gets him in trouble with his paranoid boss (Dakin Matthews) and he loses his job. He also finds out that his beloved Aunt Sally (Ann Nesby) has died.
A day or two later he travels back to his hometown in Monte Carlo, Georgia and has some heartbreaking memories of his late mother (Faith Evans) and townsfolk of his hometown. When he arrives he finds a new friendship in Lucious (Mike Epps), a happy-go-lucky, wanna-be pimp. In the film, he proclaims himself a "Booty...
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