He hit rock bottom and then found Jesus.
"In space, no one can hear you jizz."
I'm going to tell you a secret.
Please keep it to yourself.
That's usually how it happens in real life.
"I want Debra Winger, Ali MacGraw, and Bambi's mother to die!" -- Jay Sherman
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And what's wrong with that? So many films blaspheme the Lord's holy name and mock Him despite all of the things He gives us on a daily basis. It's a breath of fresh air to see an encouraging, uplifting, happy film that promotes a close relationship with Jesus for once. Those dark, Satanic films are full of lies. This film is light and truth.
^ This.
I am the videogame word made flesh.
I'm a born-again Bible-believer. I stand up for Jesus Christ, God-incarnate who is our Savior and Lord. I also find most Christian movies impossible to sit through without a barf-bag handy. The trailer for this film looks schlocky, and I won't be watching it.
I'd be curious to know why you equate evangelicals with suckers. At least we don't believe the cosmos popped into being by quantum magic.
I am not "born-again", nor "evangelical", nor a "sucker". I also do not watch "Jesus movies".
I do, however, work as a journalist specializing in horror and thriller films.
I am, however, someone who attends Celebrate Recovery two times a week for a multitude of issues, and someone whose life has been changed by this program. And I do identify myself as a Christian.
I saw this movie in the theaters on the day it came out, and yes, I felt incredibly awkward at first, but was moved to tears in certain parts because these stories are the girth of what we hear every week when people give their 12 steps graduation testimonies, and I found the characters situations to be extremely genuine to the actual CR experience.
While watching this movie, I looked around the theatre at people I have grown to know, love, and support, listen to the stories being told and instead of shame or judgement, saw tears of acceptance and understanding.
While a lot of people who choose to purchase this film, or watch it when it becomes available, will probably be a targeted "Christian audience", majority of the people who saw this film in theaters did so with their CR families, and anyone who has overcome an addiction, sexual abuse, physical abuse, etc through the help of this program will absolutely see this film through a very different lens than the one you have so judgmentally created for us.
I genuinely hope that you never reach a seemingly inescapable rock bottom in your life, where you have to make the decision between life and death, and not in a figurative way, but in a hand on the gun to your temple way, and that you never have to come back to this movie and realize that, perhaps, some people need something bigger than themselves to break free.
Kids need more violence and drugs in their lives.
shareReally - The movie is named "Home Run" and if you actually watched it were you expecting a "strike out"? I get upset when movies turn out not as advertised excluding interesting plot twist etc. but really. Was the movie billed as anything but what it was? So you dislike truth in advertising, a story that ends positively and getting exactly what you paid for? Comments further down that "try" to degrade the movie use, or better yet misuse normal English when they say things like "I seen the movie" or worse grammar. Makes you question the intellect. If you could actually site bad acting, bad directing or misbilled (which you cannot) you might have a shred of credibility in commenting in a negative way, but instead you chose to put down on values that you apparently do not have without doing any homework first so that you could have some semblance of credibility.
shareThis movie is basically Eastbound and Down, minus the good stuff. Pro ball player hits rock bottom, takes a job helping kids with sports, his old girlfriend happens to work in the same field. She's mad that he promised to change but didn't, now he must redeem himself.
sharenot at all. it was nowhere clear if and how he would be able to recover.
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