A Thousand Words

He only has 1000 words left to discover what matters the most.

This turkey was made in 2008, and the studio sat on it until this year. Murphy does his usual shtick as a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on a New Age guru for his own selfish purposes. But the guru is on to him, and his life comes unglued after a magical Bodhi tree mysteriously appears in his backyard. With every word he speaks, a leaf falls from the tree and he realizes that when the last leaf falls, both he and the tree will die. Now the motor-mouth his to resort to mime to communicate or it's game over. His wife of course does not understand ....

91 minutes.
Mature Accompaniment under 13 (Language).
Comedy, Drama.

You're killing me!

Credits

Cast	Eddie Murphy, Cliff Curtis, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke, Allison Janney
Director	Brian Robbins
Screenplay	Steve Koren
Music	John Debney
Cinematography	Clark Mathis
Editing	Ned Bastille
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2012
Produced by	DreamWorks SKG, Saturn Films, Varsity Pictures

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Comedy, drama
Language	Mild to moderate, fairly frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	Verbal references, suggestive
Violence	Mild scuffles
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Alcohol and abuse
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Die Burger Rozanne Els 'Stil' komedie wys dis tyd dat Murphy groet.	5
Cape Times Frank Scheck Lost for words - no jokes.	5
Box Office Sara Maria Vizcarrondo Word of mouth on this may inspire audiences to make like a tree and...	5
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert	8
Metacritic.com 18 critics	5
Rottentomatoes critics 54 critics	6
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Dated jokes (A Thousand Words was shot in 2008) and removing Eddie Murphy's voice -- his greatest comedic asset -- dooms this painful mess from the start.	0
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	6
Movie Review Intelligence 25 critics	6
What the People say
Internet 11586 Netizens Comedy okay, Message is good	11
Average .. 29%	6