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      Screen Door Jesus

      R Released Sep 30, 2005 1 hr. 55 min. Comedy Drama List
      82% 11 Reviews Tomatometer 28% 250+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less

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      Frances H 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. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/07/13 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Good movie.I guess there was suppose to be some kinda religious meaning behind it but I didnt get it cause Im not religious Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times ...A slyly observed slice of Americana. Rated: 4/5 Dec 8, 2006 Full Review Richard Nilsen Arizona Republic Screen Door Jesus demonstrates why [Robert] Altman is a genius and [director Kirk] Davis is a novice. Rated: 3/5 Dec 1, 2005 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle 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. Rated: 3/5 Oct 22, 2005 Full Review Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com An overlooked and ignored gem. Rated: B Oct 2, 2007 Full Review Luke Y. Thompson L.A. Weekly ...it's refreshing to see a film that not only doesn't demonize, but actually distinguishes between different strains of old-time Southern religion. Dec 7, 2006 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com 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. Rated: 3/5 Sep 17, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

      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
      Executive Producer
      Joe Bratcher III, Elzbieta Szoka
      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
      Sound Mix
      Dolby SR
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)