Question 1

Is Mr. Church woke?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Church has a woke score of 11/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. Mr. Church is a 2016 drama about a black cook named Henry Joseph Church who is hired to help a young white girl named Charlie and her mother battling cancer in 1960s Los Angeles. What starts as a six-month job turns into a 15-year family bond filled with cooking, storytelling, and quiet support through hard times. The story comes from the writer’s real life and stays focused on personal kindness and loyalty with no political messages, identity lectures, or social activism in the plot, dialogue, or marketing.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Mr. Church?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Identity-driven story themes, Anti-woke backlash / 'too woke' complaints. A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

Mr. Church

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