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Screen Door Jesus

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In a small East Texas town, the inhabitants are either bored, self-righteous, scheming or all three. It seems nothing occurs to shake their daily routines. However, all of that changes when Mother Harper (Cynthia Dorn) finds a curious thing imprinted on her screen door: the image of Jesus Christ. With talk of a miracle circulating high and low, the once-obscure town attracts all kinds of fanatics and believers, while locals from the mayor (Richard Dillard) on down are affected.

Critics Reviews

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Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times 12/08/2006
4/5
...A slyly observed slice of Americana. Go to Full Review
Richard Nilsen Arizona Republic 12/01/2005
3/5
Screen Door Jesus demonstrates why [Robert] Altman is a genius and [director Kirk] Davis is a novice. Go to Full Review
Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle 10/22/2005
3/5
It's a knowing, dare I say sweet, little film that takes pains to let the characters speak for themselves, never rallying behind an implicit religious message, which may be the best message of all. Go to Full Review
Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com 10/02/2007
B
An overlooked and ignored gem. Go to Full Review
Luke Y. Thompson L.A. Weekly 12/07/2006
...it's refreshing to see a film that not only doesn't demonize, but actually distinguishes between different strains of old-time Southern religion. Go to Full Review
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com 09/17/2006
3/5
Davis has ambition to burn and should be commended for shooting for the stars. That he had to go through the entire Old and New Testaments to try to get there is, alas, unfortunate. Go to Full Review
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Frances H 09/01/2013 An interesting study of a small Texas town and its religion, hypocrisy and superstition, which often are intwined. Funny in some places and affecting in others. See more 12/10/2012 It's one of those movies where you have to pick the person you watch it with very carefully. It is very easy for this one to piss people off. The only real thing I have against it is the fact that I don't think the movie actually knows where it stands on religion. It takes the extreames and shows all of their points of view. The hypocrat is very much alive in this movie. I think it should have possibly picked a side, and stuck with it. It's like they wanted to be so down the middle in the end the kind of missed the point. They should have instead just made people think. The acting is about as good as you would expect from the cheesy premis, but if you can look past that you actually have a pretty decent movie. It's more about how outragous people are with religion that they can't even think for themselves. See more 06/15/2012 I thought this would be an interesting movie, boy was I wrong... Maybe I'm just not educated enough to follow such a movie. To me it had no continuity, caricature development nor straight forward story line. It left me feeling confused about just what was going on. It had the potential to be a cool movie, it just missed the mark by a mile. See more 05/29/2012 Sadly, I can say I have seen this movie. Despite the 82% review from critics here, this movie is awful. The story plods along getting muddier and muddier in itself. The acting is awful and the characters unlikable. The whole story line just gets plods along and then fades away. The bits of humor are only worth chuckling at, at best. I don't mind movies that experiment with the concept of religious beliefs and examines people's faith. I am not rating the movie down on its content, it is just a poorly acted and tiresome movie. I think I could have better spent almost two hours hitting myself in the face with a hammer. See more 01/01/2010 Good movie.I guess there was suppose to be some kinda religious meaning behind it but I didnt get it cause Im not religious See more 04/13/2008 This is one of those independent films that you either get or you don't. I didn't get it. Maybe if I watched it a few times...but it wasn't that interesting. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis In a small East Texas town, the inhabitants are either bored, self-righteous, scheming or all three. It seems nothing occurs to shake their daily routines. However, all of that changes when Mother Harper (Cynthia Dorn) finds a curious thing imprinted on her screen door: the image of Jesus Christ. With talk of a miracle circulating high and low, the once-obscure town attracts all kinds of fanatics and believers, while locals from the mayor (Richard Dillard) on down are affected.
Director
Kirk Davis
Producer
Sam Adelman, David Stuart
Distributor
Indican Pictures
Production Co
FCM Productions Inc.
Rating
R (Language|Some Sexual Content)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 30, 2005, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 17, 2007
Box Office (Gross USA)
$41.6K
Runtime
1h 55m
Sound Mix
Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)