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Alex Kendrick

Highest Rated: 83% Lifemark (2022)

Lowest Rated: 9% Faith of Our Fathers (2015)

Birthday: Jun 11, 1970

Birthplace: Athens, Georgia, USA

In his overlapping roles as a filmmaker and as an associate pastor with Sherwood Baptist Church, Alex Kendrick has been, since 2003, one of the most visible figures in the growing field of faith-based American movies. Working outside the traditional infrastructure of the studio system, but with the support of the Baptist community, the multi-tasking Kendrick has made four features in eight years, as director, writer, and actor. He's also produced (or executive produced) three of the four, and taken up editing duties, as well. Setting his stories in varied but readily identifiable environments such as a high school football team ("Facing the Giants"), an urban fire station ("Fireproof"), or a used car dealership ("Flywheel"), Kendrick's stories tend to illustrate Baptist cultural values of honesty, piety, as well as unity in a workplace, family, or town. His films also tend not to express spirituality in genre terms (by contrast, Cloud Ten's immensely popular "Left Behind" adaptations weave science fiction elements into their "end times" stories), but in a grounded, "realistic" framework, introducing only the kinds of dramatic elements that viewers might encounter in their own day-to-day lives. His most recent film,2011's "Courageous," is set in an Albany, Georgia police station, and deals with family and fatherhood crises, which are resolved or addressed via spiritual means.

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Highest rated movies

83% 96% Lifemark
Watchlist
64% 99% The Forge Watchlist 59% 98% Overcomer Watchlist
40% 86% Courageous
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38% 82% Fireproof
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33% 87% War Room Watchlist
21% 66% Moms' Night Out
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17% 85% Facing the Giants
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9% 55% Faith of Our Fathers Watchlist
73% Flywheel
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
64% 99% The Forge Director,
Screenwriter
$28.7M 2024
83% 96% Lifemark Shawn (Character),
Executive Producer,
Film Editor
- 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lifemark Shawn Cates (Character),
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
- 2022
No Score Yet 97% Show Me the Father Executive Producer $1.8M 2021
59% 98% Overcomer John Harrison (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
$34.7M 2019
No Score Yet 92% Like Arrows Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
- 2018
33% 87% War Room Coleman Young (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Film Editing
$67.8M 2015
9% 55% Faith of Our Fathers Film Editing $1.0M 2015
21% 66% Moms' Night Out Ray (Character) $10.4M 2014
No Score Yet 53% The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone Daniel Anderson (Character) $549.6K 2013
40% 86% Courageous Adam Mitchell (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter
$461.7K 2011
38% 82% Fireproof Pastor Strauss (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer,
Film Editing
$33.5M 2008
17% 85% Facing the Giants Grant Taylor (Character),
Director,
Writer,
Producer,
Original Music,
Film Editing
$10.2M 2006
No Score Yet 73% Flywheel Jay Austin (Character),
Director,
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer,
Original Music,
Cinematographer,
Film Editing
- 2003
No Score Yet 82% Fly Wheel Unknown (Character),
Director
- 2003