Screen Door Jesus

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Screen Door Jesus

R

Released Sep 30, 2005

1h 55m

Comedy

Drama

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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.

Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

...A slyly observed slice of Americana.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 8, 2006

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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

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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

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Eric D. Snider

EricDSnider.com

An overlooked and ignored gem.

Rated: B

Oct 2, 2007

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)