Storyline
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja (Cliff Curtis) for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word Jack speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree are toast. Words have never failed Jack McCall, but now he’s got to stop talking and conjure up some outrageous ways to communicate or he’s a goner.
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Eddie Murphy, Greg Collins, Cliff Curtis, Philip Pavel, Clark Duke, Matt Winston, Allison Janney, John Gatins, Lennie Loftin, Tracy Mulholland, Jane Bartelme, Steven M. Gagnon, Floyd Levine, Jack McBrayer, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Bunny Levine, John Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Jeff Kahn, Alain Chabat, Emanuel Ragsdale, Jill Basey, Robert LeQuang, Michael G. Wilkinson, Lyndsey Nelson, Michael Cody Gilbert, Lou Saliba, Edi Patterson, Mitchell Fink, Ruby Dee, Leonard Earl Howze, Bethany Dwyer, Sara Holden, David Burke, Raquel Bell, Phil Reeves, Kamala Jones, K. Harrison Sweeney, Brian Gallivan, Katheryn Cain, Lauren Schuchman, Eshaya Draper, Sarah Scott Davis, Brian R. Norris
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Reviews
40
If only this Eddie Murphy flick had taken its own advice and spent a little more time being reflective instead of hyperactive, it might have overcome a trite script and awful, obvious excuses for comedy.
40
Arizona Republic
Mostly harmless, but the largely joyless exercise is a letdown after getting a glimpse of a re-energized Murphy in "Tower Heist."
40
The director, Brian Robbins, perhaps as a result of his prime-time pedigree, has so carefully engineered this manipulative machine that little emotional residue remains - only a product inoffensive, unsurprising and uninspiring.
38
The poster art for A Thousand Words shows Eddie Murphy with duct tape over his mouth, which as a promotional idea ranks right up there with Fred Astaire in leg irons.
38
The concept is unoriginal, the scenarios aren't funny, and its message is banal. Plus, Murphy alternately hams it up and phones it in.
