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Salvation Boulevard

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A man (Greg Kinnear) becomes the target of a fundamentalist preacher's (Pierce Brosnan) minions after he sees the preacher accidentally shoot an atheist.
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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Rated: C Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle It's a blunderbuss satire that criminally wastes a talented cast. Rated: 1/4 Aug 11, 2011 Full Review Joe Williams St. Louis Post-Dispatch In truckin' past so many fruitful oases, "Salvation Boulevard" is a bumpy road. Rated: 2/4 Aug 5, 2011 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review What begins as a promising setup with an incredible cast slowly disintegrates over ninety minutes. Rated: 1.5/4 Mar 9, 2023 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens [Pierce] Brosnan and [Greg] Kinnear -- they just takes the bull, er, the Bible, by the horns, and run straight into the bright light of the comedic gods. Nov 16, 2019 Full Review Sarah Sluis Film Journal International An evangelical disciple is pulled into a comically absurd web of crime after witnessing his pastor's dark side. Aug 15, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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Cristian s Simpática y divertida, por momentos un poco tonta pero logra entretener. Tal vez esperaba un poco más por el elenco pero igual funciona. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/16/23 Full Review georgan g Goofy but funny. If you like such a tale, enjoy! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member So glad I watched the film before reading the reviews. Especially touching was the bewilderment that a lost soul trying to find some path (Greg Kinnear) when faced with hypocrisy, corruption and outright lies. It was refreshing to find a charismatic preacher (Pierce Brosnan) who actually seems to believe what he says, or has nearly convinced himself. The rest of the cast deserved more fully developed characters, with that this might have been a truly exceptional comedy. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A funny, but less than hilarious, satire of evangelical religious leaders and their megachurch followers. An excellent cast all do a fine job in their roles but perhaps the targets of the humor are simply too easy for it to be as funny as I would have hoped. Not great but enjoyable. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review walter m "Salvation Boulevard" starts with a debate between noted atheist intellectual Peter Blaylock(Ed Harris) and Pastor Dan Day(Pierce Brosnan) of the Third Millennium Church. After the show, Peter and Dan have a drink in Peter's office where Dan accidentally shoots Peter with an antique gun, which is witnessed by Carl(Greg Kinnear), one of Dan's followers. While Dan seeks to cover it up before having a terrible experience watching a Tom Cruise movie, Carl tries to do the right thing which leads Jerry(Jim Gaffigan) to try to go old testament on him. "Salvation Boulevard" is a frustrating near miss that a game cast does what it can with sketchily drawn characters but to no avail. Evangelical religion is such low hanging fruit these days that one has to really work at it to have something new to say, and a multiplex showing religious films will just not cut it. And you know you're in trouble when the best laugh of the entire movie and perhaps the only true one comes in the endnotes. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A decent effort to parody the myriad of church organisations and their devotees in bible-belt land. Pierce Brosnan gets the sleaze level just about right for his pastor and although its not belly-laugh funny its joyful enough to see the lengths the array of characters go to to protect their leader. That said the story is all over the place at times and could have been directed better than it is. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A man (Greg Kinnear) becomes the target of a fundamentalist preacher's (Pierce Brosnan) minions after he sees the preacher accidentally shoot an atheist.
Director
George Ratliff
Producer
Cathy Schulman, Celine Rattray, Peter Fruchtman
Screenwriter
Douglas Stone, George Ratliff
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
Mandalay Independent Pictures, 10th Hole Productions, Mandalay Vision
Rating
R (Some Language|Drug Material|Brief Sexual Content|Violence)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 15, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 5, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$27.4K
Runtime
1h 36m
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